Thomas Dudziak wrote:
Ilias Lazaridis wrote:

Is there any OJB quick-start download available?

  - binaries
  - ready to go configuration
  - sample application with integrated database

Yupp, there something of that sort. You can download the ojb-blank.jar file which contains a ready-to-use base environment (including an Eclipse project), and then drop in the files of one of

I would prefere a netbeans 4.0 project.

the tutorials (tutorials-src.jar), probably tutorial 1 or 2. You can get all of them in the binary download area.
A description of this is in the "Getting started" page:


http://db.apache.org/ojb/docu/getting-started.html
[...]

http://db.apache.org/ojb/docu/tutorials/summary.html

Many documentation, many manual steps.

Actually there are only few steps.

Which I have difficulties to detect within the large document [as most possibly every newcomer would have].


Most of the getting started doc just explains what the files mean and what settings there are.

I see.

And IMO its better to be detailed (and explicit) than to be overly short.

You are of course right.

But the user should decide about the detail increase.

Solution: hierarchical document, which is compact, with links to more details.

If you just want to run something, then drop in the source files and do

I want to run and explore it.

ant build
ant setup-db
cd build/resources
java -classpath "the;classpath" whatever.you.main.class.is

ok, will try.

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I the OJB-team actually intrested to increase the general usage of OJB?

I have some very simple suggestions, which need only a few days to implement.

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