In addition, the samples dirs contain *.iml, .classpath files

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.
>>
>> --
>> *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
>
>


-- 
*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

Reply via email to