that sounds good to me. the archetypes are being voted for release. thanks for the help Bruce musachy
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:29 PM, phillips1021 <bphill...@ku.edu> wrote: > > Musachy (and anyone else interested): > > I've added several pages to the new Struts 2 documentation wiki: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/S2NewDocDraft/Home. I've copied > over many of the pages from the current wiki: > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/WW/Home and tried to update them. > > But now I'm not sure where to go next on this project and could use some > guidance/feedback. > > The next area I'd like to work on for the new documentation is to improve > the Tutorials section of the documentation. I think the Ready, Set, Go > tutorial could use some work. I'd like to improve the Ready, Set, Go > tutorials by writing up instructions for how to create a Struts 2 web > application using Maven and how to create a Struts 2 web application by > manually managing the artifacts Struts 2 requires and using Ant for > building/deploying the web application. > > Instead of just referring the user to the Maven Struts 2 blank archetype > (which isn't available for 2.1.8.1 last time I checked) I'd like to create a > tutorial for how to setup a Struts 2 web application that uses Maven to > manage artifact dependencies (what to put in the pom.xml, where to put > struts.xml, how to include/configure Jetty to run the Struts 2 web > application). As part of the tutorial I'd like to have a zipped Maven > project with these minimal configurations that the reader could download, > unzip, and import into their own Maven-aware IDE. I'm not sure where to > host this zipped Maven project (I'm willing to put it on my own server). > > For the Struts 2 web application built using Ant, I'd would give the user > detailed instructions about which jars must be on the web application's > class path (WEB-INF/lib) so the user clearly know which jar files to copy > from the download. Again, I would have a complete minimal starter > application that the user could download and build using Ant and deploy to a > Servlet container like Tomcat or Jetty. > > These two starter examples (Maven and Ant) could then be expanded upon in > the other tutorials such as HelloWorld, Using Tags, Coding Actions, etc. > For each separate tutorial I would provide a finished Maven and Ant version > the reader could download to run/review on his/her own computer. > > As part of improving these tutorials I could ensure the many suggestions in > the comments on some of the tutorials are incorporated into the new > versions. > > I realize I'm setting myself up for some work, so before I start this, I'd > like to get your opinion if this work is a good idea and would be useful for > new Struts 2 users or if the current tutorials are good enough to just copy > over to the new documentation wiki. If you agree that redoing the tutorials > with Maven and Ant examples that users can download would be a good idea, > then where do you recommend we host the tutorials? I'm happy to put them on > one of my servers if that is appropriate. > > Thanks for the guidance. > > Bruce Phillips > http://www.brucephillips.name/blog > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/New-Struts-2-Documentation-Wiki---Next-Step-Improving-Tutorials-tp26962935p26962935.html > Sent from the Struts - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@struts.apache.org
