Vidyanand, 1. I usually run with all the optional components except security. Feel free to add comments to the build.xml and documentation if you discover a dependency in the tests that should be documented. Or fix up the code to not require the dependency.
2. I don't know why this would happen, probably missing a jar file. SAAJ probably requires some of the attachment jars, which are optional in the build. 3. I develop with JDK 1.3.1. There are no mandated versions (1.3 or higher is probably all we need). Sticking with 1.3 will prevent you from coding any 1.4 dependencies, so I recommend doing that. 4. We should NOT care about the parser we use. JAXP is all we require. It would be good to have someone using a parser that is not Xerces. I used Xerces 1.4.4, but recently switched to 2.x. Hope this helps. -- Tom Jordahl Macromedia Server Development -----Original Message----- From: Vidyanand Murunikkara [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Few questions on the build Hi 1) In the build.xml there is some notes about optional components. Are these required to be in every developers machine? I needed to add mailapi.jar to the lib directory to get it compiling. But it is supposed to be an optional component. Am I missing something ? 2) I tried running "ant clean all-tests" after adding mailapi.jar to the lib directory. I end up getting stuck at running the tests.saaj.PackageTests. I get a UnsupportedDataTypeException from JAF. Again is there somethign possibly wrong with my environment. 3) I use JDK 1.4 for development. Is that ok or does Axis mandate a JDK 1.3.1 ? 4. THe developer's guide requires xerces to be present. Since I use JDK 1.4 I already have a JAXP compliant parser. Is that good enough ? ( I have read in one of the threads that xerces is preferred ). Thanx for taking a look at this and hoping to hear soon :-) Vidyanand.
