A good experiment would be to follow a dozen or so brand new JBoss developers and capture the initial stumbling blocks and document them in the first week. The issues are usually trivial in nature and soon forgotten until another newbie comes along and trips over the same pebble.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Phil Shrimpton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 1:22 PM Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] Jboss handbooks > 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
