I agree. We should just have a single link to the samples wiki page. Jarek
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:26 PM, Joe Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Geronimo welcome page (http://localhost:8080/) has long included links > under a header of Geronimo Examples. > > Under this header are the following 3 links: > - Servlet Examples > - JSP Examples > - LDAP Demo > - Additional Samples > > > I'd like to remove the first 3 links and rename the last link to simply > "Samples" for trunk and branches/2.1 (prior to the 2.1.2 release). The last > link takes you to a page on our wiki that lists doc links for the samples > per release ... I think that is more appropriate. > > The first 3 links present another html page from the local server that > contains text similar to this: > This sample has not been installed yet. If this server can connect to the > internet, click here to install and connect to the sample application. It > will take a few minutes to download and install the sample and then load it. > > Those 3 links present some problems (and currently don't work for 2.1 or > 2.1.1 that have already been released). > - Clicking the install link attempts to connect to a repository and initiate > a install of the specified sample. > - The repository is not always as desired. For me it defaults to my local > maven2 repo. > - The current component IDs are incorrect. That's easy enough to change but > I suspect there would still be issues (see the next points). > - Even if it linked to the correct repo for the release, there would still > be a period of time after a server release when the samples are not yet > available in the repository. > - The LDAP demo requires some additional setup now because we no longer > include Directory in the initial server image ... hence this gives a false > impression that simply clicking on the link will make the example > functional. > > Given these problem and the fact that is has been broken for several > releases. I'd like to remove the specific server example links from the > welcome page before we ship 2.1.2. Any objections? > > Joe > >
