Re: site is very confusing for beginners - how to get list of archetypes - link on faq is broken

2008-05-08 Thread Russell Bateman
I agree totally and I finally just came to this forum to get answers. Someone told me about Sonatype's document which is, in my observation, the definitive reference for beginners on Maven. My personal, emerging notes including a link to that document and other useful links can be found at

Re: Maven and Eclipse: getting started

2008-05-02 Thread Russell Bateman
Profuse thanks, Chris, for helping me get started here. Russ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I've tried running mvn eclipse realizing that that is way too naive as a starting point. I'm guessing that to create a Dynamic Web Project under Maven control for use in Eclipse, I have to create a BLANK

Reply protocol for this list?

2008-05-02 Thread Russell Bateman
I wondered, because based on the traffic I've watched the last couple of days since I joined I've not detected a specific pattern, if there's a best practice for replies to postings in this list. In the Vim users list, for example, they like you to reply only at the bottom of mail or

Re: Reply protocol for this list?

2008-05-02 Thread Russell Bateman
what you prefer, and I'm sure we can sort it out. Wayne On 5/2/08, Russell Bateman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wondered, because based on the traffic I've watched the last couple of days since I joined I've not detected a specific pattern, if there's a best practice for replies to postings

Maven and Eclipse: getting started

2008-05-01 Thread Russell Bateman
I'm looking for help getting going with Maven and Eclipse. I've read lots, but have been unable to synthesis what I've read into a practical, working procedure. I'm looking for some direction (URLs or other suggestions). Where am I? I have downloaded Maven and run it successfully to create

QuickStart example just doesn't work

2008-04-30 Thread Russell Bateman
Am I just broken? Nothing could be easier to download and set up, but walking the QuickStart (http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/maven-in-five-minutes.html), I find the example simply doesn't work. C:\russ\devset JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_04 M2=C:\Program

Re: QuickStart example just doesn't work

2008-04-30 Thread Russell Bateman
You're absolutely right. Somehow I missed the mvn package command in the 5-minute quick start stuff and I have no excuse for that. Wow, this stuff works really well now. Thanks to both of you for this answer. Russ Wendy Smoak wrote: On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Wendy Smoak [EMAIL