Thanks Tom
1. I have confirmed that the build needs mailapi.jar to compile. Classes
like DefaultTypeMappingImpl seem to have depenendency on it. So we will
need to change the build file.
a) Does it mean we will add mailapi.jar to the lib directory?
Since activation.jar is not present I presume it is not
required to be added
b) If attachments are meant to be required should we remove all
the excludes for compiling in build.xml which depend on
attachments being present.
2. I cant figure out whats wrong. But i end getting up the error message
again.
Thanks.
Vidyanand
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Jordahl [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 6:14 AM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: Few questions on the build
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.
