Hi!
Recently I dedicated a couple of hours to learn about restlet (2.0-RC3).
Maybe it is too little time, but I think my feedback may be important for
restlet improvement.
I've used as a documentation this link:
http://www.restlet.org/documentation/2.0/firstSteps
It is well documented. Unfortunately, I had some troubles in running the
example. I have downloaded the distribution, created an eclipse project. The
first problem was to set up the classpath of the project. There a dozen of
dependencies. I didn't know which of them to add to the classpath. This is
where maven would be useful. I use maven for all my projects and find it
very easy to get started with other open source project. All you have to do,
is to run mvn eclipse:eclipse and maven takes care about all project
dependencies. It would be very useful for restelet adoption to 'mavenize'
the project. Also, it could be useful to have a archetype - to generate a
template of the project ready to run.
The next problem, was to start the hello world example. I would expect to
add the minimum dependencies to make it work. It seems very strange that
hello world requires more than 10 dependencies to work (even java mail,
grizzly, etc).. It seems a little bit strange, but maybe there is a reason.
I like the way restlet is implemented, I would like to understand it better
and use it when I'll have an opportunity. My purpose is not to criticize,
but to help improve restlet.
Thank you for your work!
Alex
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