I've been trying to get Turbine up and going as the base for a new webapp for us and I've run into so many problems that I'm not sure Turbine is really the right path for us. I was hoping folks who may have gone through similar experiences might be able to shine some light or at least let me know that what I'm trying to do is possible :-)
NOTE: I have downloaded the TDK and got that to work. However the environment it uses (tomcat and torque) do not match the environment we're using, so while I got the larger concepts of Turbine, many of the integration details are what is vexing me.
1) Turbine and Hibernate
We've been using Hibernate for a while and have developed our own security system (represented by objects that are hibernated). I have seen references to being able to use Hibernate with Turbine, but none of the examples I've tried work.
In addition, it appears I'm going to have to recode either my user/security system to match what Turbine wants or write some custom classes to integrate what we have to turbine. Has anyone had any experience with this? Any pointers or where to look?
2) Rebuilding from source
I cannot get this to work. I've downloaded Maven. I've downloaded the necessary java libraries (jndi, javamail, etc). I've edited the turbine project.xml to not depend on jdbc (maven can't find it even though it's already in java). When I build, I get over 100 compilation errors.
These seem to be torque related, but I really do not want to use torque for our app (in fact, I can't. If I can't get Turbine working with hibernate in the next week or so, I'm going to be told to drop it).
I apologize if the tone of this is whiny at all. Frankly, I'm just exasperated. In the course of just 4 weeks I've had to learn hibernate, ant,
turbine/torque, maven( only for turbine), velocity, xslt, etc. My brain is about fried and I seem to keep walking into walls here. I'm a pretty experienced programmer and very well versed with Java. But all the parts you have to learn to create a webapp seem overwhelming at times. Ugh - sorry for the rant -- just blowing off steam there :-)
Thanks for any help, pointers or just words of encouragement anyone can supply
Gerry
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