<waitfor maxwait="30" maxwaitunit="second"> <available file="errors.log"/> </waitfor>waits up to 30 seconds for a file called errors.log to appear.
<waitfor maxwait="3" maxwaitunit="minute" checkevery="500"> <http url="http://localhost/myapp/index.html"/> </waitfor>waits up to 3 minutes (and checks every 500 milliseconds) for a web server on localhost to serve up the specified URL.
<waitfor maxwait="10" maxwait="second"> <and> <socket server="dbserver" port="1521"/> <http url="http://webserver/mypage.html"/> </and> </waitfor>waits up to 10 seconds for a server on the dbserver machine to begin listening on port 1521 and for the http://webserver/mypage.html web page to become available.