On Tuesday 21 January 2003 14:03, Bill Burke wrote: Hi,
> The Official JBoss documentation goes definately in large detail into the > JBoss internals, sure... > If you want a beginners guide, we offer a Getting Started > guide for free available for download at SourceForge. > > Your comments are most helpful though. Just to add another comment to the list... I am a user of Jboss, it is one tool in my toolbox of many. I have read the getting started stuff, and have bought the pay-for docs, but IMO, there is a big gap in the middle. The getting started stuff from JBoss and third-parties, by its nature is 'simple', but does tend to spend too much time on 'EJB' development and third party tools (xDoclet, ANT etc.), neither of which I am really interested in as there are plenty of docs/books/howtos on that sort of stuff available elsewhere. The advanced pay-for docs, are arguably the best docs going for any appserver, but as a user of the 'product', I am not interested in how the product was developed, and how great the arcitecture is, I just want to use the thing. What is missing is a good old fasioned user manual, you know, the book that tells you what buttons to press and what knobs to tweek. To put it another way, when I buy a word processor, I don't need the getting started document that teaches me how to type, nor do I need the advanced documentation that explains the word precessors internals and source code, I just need a user manual that tells me what it does and how to do it. Don't get me wrong, I am not knocking what has and is being produced, its more than enougth to put 'commercial' products to shame, let alone open source ones. Its just food for thought. Phil -- Linux 2.4.4-4GB 8:41pm up 8 days, 2:31, 1 user, load average: 0.76, 0.34, 0.22 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Scholarships for Techies! Can't afford IT training? All 2003 ictp students receive scholarships. Get hands-on training in Microsoft, Cisco, Sun, Linux/UNIX, and more. www.ictp.com/training/sourceforge.asp _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
