Which is kinda sad, since I still find too many Ant (and variants) -based projects out there (which is even more sad).
Spring is becoming increasingly more difficult for beginners. Even the old MVC tutorial (which were a very good step-by-step script) isn't available anywhere anymore. It doesn't really affect me, since I use maven whenever I have the option, and already know how to do all these, but.... Well, the good side is that, beginners will have to learn maven from the start (since is the only bearable option), and hopefully Ant will become a forgotten artifact from ancient times... :) Tetsuo On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Pedro Santos <pedros...@gmail.com> wrote: > Spring distribution hasn't the spring.jar anymore: > https://fisheye.springsource.org/browse/spring-framework/trunk/build-spring-framework/resources/readme.txt?r=2858&r=2854&r=2940&r=3872 > > On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:27 AM, tetsuo <ronald.tet...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When you don't use maven. >> >> For example, most Ant-based projects I've worked with use spring.jar, >> instead of >> spring-core.jar+spring-tx.jar+spring-jdbc.jar+spring-orm.jar+spring-web.jar+spring-webmvc.jar+spring-beans.jar+spring-context.jar+spring-expression.jar+spring-aop.jar+spring-aspects.jar+spring-hibernate3.jar+aopalliance.jar >> >> With maven this is a non-issue, since you'd simply declare >> spring-hibernate3 and spring-webmvc, and everything else would come as >> transitive dependencies, but to do it by hand is pretty daunting, >> especially for beginners trying out the library. >> >> Tetsuo >> >> On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Max Bowsher <m...@f2s.com> wrote: >> > On 25/01/11 10:44, tetsuo wrote: >> >> What about having the aggregated jar only for the bundle (zip) >> >> download, not to be available in maven central? >> > >> > In my experience aggregated jars tend to prove more of confusion in the >> > end, than a help, with users who misunderstand and end up with multiple >> > copies of a classes on their classpath. >> > >> > Are there any build/deployment scenarios where adding several jars to a >> > classpath isn't just as easy as adding one? >> > >> > Max. >> > >> > >> > > > > -- > Pedro Henrique Oliveira dos Santos >
