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.
>>>
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>
>
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