On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:43 AM, doog <[email protected]> wrote:

> Does this specificity help:
>
> Now that you've created the sample app and launched it from the
> command line, you can import it into STS to start customizing it. To
> do this switch back to STS and click the menu item "File" -> "Import",
> and then select "Maven" -> "Existing Maven Projects", click "Next" and
> browse to the "expenses" directory containing pom.xml (from step 2),
> in our example ~/gwt/springsource/expenses, then click "Open".
>
> http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/roo-sts.html#sts
>
> -Doug
>
> On Dec 7, 8:49 pm, Peter Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm trying to follow the 'Getting Started' procedure, as described in
> > the Developer's Guide, for using SpringSource Tool Suite[1].
> >
> > I'm at the point where it says:
> >
> > [quote]
> > Now that you've created our app and launched it from the command line,
> > you can import it into STS to start customizing it. To do this switch
> > back to STS and click the menu item File -> Import, and then select
> > "Existing Maven Projects".
> > [/quote]
> >
> > But I can't, because the instructions do not indicate where Roo/Maven
> > put the project in my file system, and STS does not auto-magically
> > list the project as I would think a tool suite should.
> >
> > Leaving out one crucial sentence like this, makes it very hard for
> > newbies to a new tool/framework.
> >
> > I'm using these tools on a Linux platform.
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> > Peter Alexander
> >
> > [1]http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/roo-sts.html
>
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Thank you Doug for your timely response to me and for already including the
improvement in the documentation for others to take advantage of.

I'm a huge advocate for thoughtfully considered documentation and this makes
me very happy.

I'm just starting out in Google's developer community, and I really think
I'm going to like it here! :')

~Peter

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