Hi Azeez, Andun (intern) has already provided patches for the Jax-RS samples to use ant. I'm in the process of applying them to trunk. We'll also make sure that all the dependencies are packed and ant won't be downloading any dependencies when user runs the samples.
thanks, On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote: > While running some AppServer samples I found that the normal practice of > using Ant hasn't been followed & Maven3 is used instead. This is a bad idea > for several reasons; > > 1. You can't simply download the binaries & run the samples. You need to > do an online maven build which will download lots of transitive dependency > junk, POMs and so on. If a new Maven user tries to run it, he will have to > download Maven, and wait for several minutes until all the junk is > downloaded, before he can run the sample. > 2. We already ship all the dependencies needed by the samples inside the > binaries. By using Maven, we are making user re-download all of those. > > Using Maven for running simple samples is like using a cannon to shoot a > fly. It simply isn't worth it, and will only annoy users. > > -- > *Afkham Azeez* > Director of Architecture; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com > Member; Apache Software Foundation; http://www.apache.org/ > * <http://www.apache.org/>** > email: **[email protected]* <[email protected]>* cell: +94 77 3320919 > blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* > twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> > * > linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* > * > * > *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* > > > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev > > -- Supun Malinga, Software Engineer, WSO2 Inc. http://wso2.com http://wso2.org email - [email protected] <[email protected]> mobile - 071 56 91 321
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