Thanks.
Your mail did get through to the mailing list.
I have a small unrelated project to finish before I get back to trying this.
Did you have the problem with the wrong versions of libraries being put
in the maven repository?
Wher di you get the good version of jetspeed-portal.xxx.jar ?
Ron
Raj Saini wrote:
Ron,
I have been trying to send this mail on mailing list without success.
I got it returned from SMTP server. I am not sure it got delivered or
not. Therefore, I am sending it directly and I hope you will find the
below info useful.
Raj
Ron Wheeler wrote:
Great.
I have the Mavenide plug-in.
How did you get it loaded into Eclipse? Did you create the empty
project as a Maven project or Java?
Checkout your project using Subclipse SVN plugin. It is available at
http://subclipse.tigris.org/. Checkout the project as Maven Project and
not Java Project.
How did you get the jetspeed components downloaded into Eclipse.
Mavenide will automatically do that for you. To resolve dependency you
have to run Maven. Maven will download all required jars. Configure your
build.properties file as mentioned in Getting Started guide before you
run Maven.
How did you fix the corrupted jar? Where did you get the good version?
I had to download it manually from Internet and put into maven
repository. Tomcat stack trace did not give any hint of the corrupted
file. I tried unjaring every jar file to find the class mentioned in
the stack trace and my search ended up at jetspeed-portal.xxx.jar which
I found was corrupt.
What documentation did you find that was helpful?
J2 Getting started guide.
Regards,
Raj
Ron
Raj Saini wrote:
Hi,
I have Jetspeed2 M4 installed and running. I did a source as well as
binary build and it is working well. In the beginning I faced a
problem that was due to a corrupt jar file (I think it was
jetspeed-portal.xxx.jar). I had to download this file manually and
put into the repository. Since then I did not find any problem with
building or running J2.
For eclipse and Maven integration, best way is to install the
Mavenide. It integrates maven well inside Eclipse and you can run
Maven like ant. You may find lot of unresolved dependency when you
checkout J2. I would suggest to do a Maven build from command line
and clean and rebuild your J2 project from eclipse.
Please let me know your more specific problems. I will try to help
you out.
Regards,
Raj
There does not seem to much interest in this area. Perhaps as they
get closer to a release and more people like us start to try to use
Jetspeed2, it will get to the top of the list.
It seems to be the usual problem of open source.
The guys writing code like to write code. They are also too
involved in the process to understand what others need to be told.
A lot of the documentation is really the developers talking to each
other about the neat features and why they did it rather than how
it is used.
In a commercial project, you would get the developers together with
customers and do some testing of the installation and operating
procedures. Thet would sit side by side and walk through the docs
step by step making notes about what is clear and what is not. In
open source this is hard to do and never gets done. The "clients"
never get into the process except through the forums. The
information from the forums never gets back into the docs unless a
developer sees the problem and solution and takes the initiative to
fix the docs or installation procedure.
On the other hand, there is a lot of Jetspeed documentation so I
think that the development group understands the importance of
providing good documentation - they just have trouble making it
relevent or complete.
For instance, they assume that I am a Maven user who is going to
read the Maven files (and I know where they are and what they are
called???) if I have any questions so there is no need to explain
certain things.
They provide information that is not useful but miss out on things
like describing what a step actually does - what files are put
where during the step.
I would like to know more about Maven but the Maven documentation
is even worse and takes way too much reading between the lines to
figure out. I just do not have the time to do this given the state
of the documentation and the time available.
I am a big fan of Eclipse and Ant. I know that Maven and Ant are
integrated into Eclipse. I recall finding a document about setting
Jetspeed up under Eclipse but it was wrong as well.
BTW The bug in M4 is known by the error that it produces
"PortletAggregator error".
I have done so many installations now that I do not know what files
on my disk are good and which ones are from unsuccessful attempts.
I will clean up and then redo the binary install of M3 to see what
I get. Then I would like to get the whole thing into Eclipse and
figure out how to build it and deploy it from there. Then I want to
build a "customization" directory and Ant procedure to integrate my
customized files into a new release without losing my application.
This seems like a pretty sensible way to work but there is no
documentation on how to do this.
Are you going to try to get it going in Eclipse?
Ron
Riddle wrote:
Thank you for the info. I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to
build for a very long time and thought it was only me.
M3 was the last time I saw it work.
Is there a chance of the docs, scripts and libaries will be
straightened out?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Wheeler"
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To: "Jetspeed Users List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: new user and eclipse
The documentation for getting Jetspeed installed is not in a
useful state and does not work correctly.
The version numbers on the libraries that maven puts in the
repository do not match what Jetspeed needs in some cases and in
other cases the library is missing.
I was never able to get it working with Eclipse or even by
following the directions in the getting-started.html.
The M4 snapshot that you are told to download has errors in it
that prevent maven from building it correctly.
You will get to the point of deploying it but it will fail to
deploy (tomcat dumps a lot when Jetspeed is accessed - read the
archives for more details.
I finally got a working jetspeed by downloading a binary version
of M3. I downloaded the binary release from
http://apache.mirror.rafal.ca/portals/jetspeed-2/
This worked but now I have to figure out a) what do I have or not
have and b) how to get the whole mess into Eclipse in a state
that I can customize it and build something useful.
I have received some very useful advice about how to separate and
manage my customizations from the jetspeed distribution.
(probably in the archives). The person who gave me the advice has
already written the Ant tasks to manage his customization but did
not post the Ant Script.
He did however give a pretty clear description of how it worked.
Can't do this until I get the Jetspeed sources/libraries into
Eclipse with a working Maven build .
There needs to be more attention paid to the installation
instructions and some real thought put into how web designers and
system managers who are not java programmers can get this mess
installed. I would be very interested in working with other
similarly minded people who are trying to get a web application
built with Jetspeed using Eclipse the way it is supposed to work
- not from the DOS or LINUIX command line. Maven is integrated
into Eclipse, we should not be futzing around with maven commands.
This is not my top priority but it is something that I want to
get working this month.
Ron
Jacek Wiślicki wrote:
Wiadomosc od Davide Parisi z 2005-10-03 22:57 brzmiala:
thanks Jacek, i know this, and eclise read some library like
dom4j, commons-io ecc. but my eclipse don't find library like
aopalliance, castor...i need to download some library but i
don't know how make that...:)
I see...:) Add to your Maven's project.properties a list of
remote repositories, like this:
maven.repo.remote = http://www.bluesunrise.com/maven/,
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/, http://dist.codehaus.org/,
http://cvs.apache.org/repository
If some download problems appear with Maven, you can download
the libraries manually (from any of the above locations) and
place them in your local repository as
groupId/jars/artifactId-version.jar, e.g. for a "sample"
dependency in project.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>group_name</groupId>
<artifactId>lib_name</artifactId>
<version>lib_version</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>
use:
group_name/jars/lib_name-lib_version.jar
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