Hi, I've previously had some problems with compiling Axis2 source code, mainly due to issues with tests failing during compilation. I've tried jdk 6 and 5, and many other tweak, but I could not manage to get maven compile sources without any errors. I've decided to try something different, and I've setup Ubuntu 8.04. Switching from XP sp2 to Ubuntu worked for me, and I've managed to compile both Axis2 1.4 source release and the latest code I've checked out from svn using both jdk 5 and 6 However, I could not compile 1.3, neither with jdk5 nor with 6. Actually jdk 6 appears to be a no go for 1.3 anyway. Tests still fail (2 failures actually) for 1.3 with maven 2.0.9 . The feedback is: there are still ant build files and instructions in readme files. However, some of the instructions related to ant are out of date. For example to create eclipse plugin projects, if you choose the ant way, you are expected to do a "maven create-lib" according to docs, but this is not possible, since maven is used in maven 1.x and mvn is used in maven 2. Axis2 uses maven 2 so this part of the doc is broken I guess. The doc does not mention that you can do mvn eclipse:eclipse in eclipse tools dirs to get plugin projects, and when you do that, the libs that the plugin project require are not copied to lib folder of the generated project. Overall, the process requires a little digging, considerably more if you are not used to maven, and I've still not managed to get 1.3 source to compile. Still, I'm very glad that I've reached a point where I can see the bigger picture much better, and I'd like to thank to all contributers for making such a great piece of work available.
All the best Seref
