Run TestCase from Java and set Settings?

Right, but what I'm attempting to do is run a SoapUI test case from a junit/testng integration test, so I need to be able to call SoapUI classes from within my Java test code. That's easy enough, but my requirements are particular:

1. I need to be able to run the SoapUI test runner with specific SoapUI settings - namely, preemptive authentication needs to be true.
2. I need access to the run context of the test case after it has finished so I can fetch some properties that were set within the SoapUI test case and use them in my junit/testng integration test.

The way the SoapUI code was written, those two requirements seem to be at odds with each other. You can either run a single TestCase and have access to the context, but not be able to set settings, or you can run a test case via the SoapUITestCaseRunner and set settings, but not have access to the finished TestCase context.

I was able to use this method:

  WsdlProject project = new WsdlProject( "src/dist/sample-soapui-project.xml" ); 
  TestSuite testSuite = project.getTestSuiteByName( "Test Suite" ); 
  TestCase testCase = testSuite.getTestCaseByName( "Test Conversions" );
  TestRunner runner = testCase.run( new PropertiesMap(), false ); 

which is from the online help. I can get the TestCase runtime context via this method, but I found no way to set SoapUI settings via these classes. So I wrote my own SoapUI test runner class which does the above but also instantiates the SoapUIPro.SoapUIProCore class within the constructor of my SoapUI test runner class. (I think the same would work for the non-Pro version using SoapUI.SoapUICore class.)

So, effectively, I did this:

  SoapUIPro.SoapUIProCore soapuiCore = new SoapUIPro.SoapUIProCore(true, "/path/to/soapui-settings.xml");
  WsdlProject project = new WsdlProject( "src/dist/sample-soapui-project.xml" ); 
  TestSuite testSuite = project.getTestSuiteByName( "Test Suite" ); 
  TestCase testCase = testSuite.getTestCaseByName( "Test Conversions" );
  TestRunner runner = testCase.run( new PropertiesMap(), false ); 

This just seems really "hacky" and was unsure if it would cause other unintended consequences, which is why I was hoping for some feedback from SmartBear.

-tim