I would like to learn how to run James from Eclipse and up front will admit that I am not a guru with Eclipse.. (Have used it some in the past, but not very savoy with it.)
Am trying to follow the instructions found at http://wiki.apache.org/james/EclipseNotes and got rapidly lost.. 1. I managed to get James checked out from the Apache SVN repository without problems. 2. Verify Checkout and I hit the first snag. The instructions say to run the Ant 'build' script. I used find to hunt for a build.xml file and could not find it. Ant of course complains about this... So reading the BUILD.txt file it says I should use a different build tool - maven. So I downloaded that and installed it. Then ran the command mvn clean package which produced 18 minutes worth of output, amongst which I noted several stack walkbacks from some kind of exceptions. I dunno where, if any, a log file exists that would capture all of this, but if anyone wishing to help wants to see it, please guide me to it and I will post.... 3. The third section on this web page talks about Modularization, and this totally lost me. It says to start by creating a new user library containing all the jars in stage.... Stage??? What and where is stage? Now lost, I decided to go off and play with Eclipse to see where I am at. The first thing I knew it was going to be asking for is where is main. Hunting around I found a main class in james/container-spring so I added this to the build path source folders, and pointed the run/debug configuration for the Main class at it. That indeed brought the container-spring stuff into the project but with lots of errors. I took a look to see what was going on and it appears that the package declarations in each of the source files differs from the way files are organized in the file system as checked out from SVN. I.E. the declarations start with org.apache.james.... while the expected package (based on the file system organization) is src.main.java.org.apache.james... for example. My own experience with Java development on Eclipse, in the past, agrees that the file system organization is unexpected... So SPLAT! I have hit a brick wall and dunno how to proceed... I guess I could modify all the package declarations and see where that leads me, but somehow I suspect that is not the path I should proceed down.... Anyone care to lead this poor lost java soul out of the woods? I probably am going to be asking quite a few "newbie type" questions as a lot of this is unfamiliar to me. (FYI, I have managed to do some Tomcat development/debugging in the past with Eclipse, so I was kinda expecting James development to be somewhat similar.) Thanks in advance... Marc.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-user-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-user-h...@james.apache.org
