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*
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