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