On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Supun Malinga <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Azeez,
>
> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 8:42 PM, Afkham Azeez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> In addition, the samples dirs contain *.iml, .classpath files
>
> Well I can't find any. Could be local to you? Those would get created if
> you create an idea project from a top level of the product.
>
>
Yes of course, I have idea files. That is why you need to exclude all types
of project files while creating the binaries.



> thanks,
>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Supun Malinga <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>
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>
>
> --
> 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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