Hello Eran, That'd be my pleasure. I'm evaluating various stacks for web services, Axis being my favorite, and if things go right, it'll be used in a large scale project. I'd be more than happy to contribute any changes, improvements I'll be doing meanwhile.
Cheers Seref On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:21 AM, Eran Chinthaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Seref, > > you can make the life better of the other newcomers, if you have some time > to help. > > Please checkout our source code, and improve the documentation. Then if you > can send a patch, one of our existing committers can review that and apply > it. So that in the next release everyone will get better docs. This is a > community effort and your contribution and feedback is greatly appreciated. > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Seref Arikan < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > > > -- > With Mettha, > Eran Chinthaka > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Health is the greatest gift; contentment is the greatest wealth; trusting > is the best relationship; nirvana is the highest joy. - Dhammapada
