I've given the src and binary distros a spin on linux. My configuration is
Fedora Core5 IBM JDK 1.5.0 Maven 2.0.6 Binary: I concur with Luciano that the READMEs for calculator-rmi-reference calculator-rmi-service implementation-crud now don't match the way that the samples are currently organized. I'm reluctant to agree to go with this release when our shop window isn't fully functional. I have checked fixes in for the calculator sample to the 0.9branch and head. Luciano's fix for implementation-crud looks good to me. Source: This fails to build under maven in my environment. The culprit is the maven-jaxb-plugin. The pom provided with the version that we refer in our poms, e.g. databinding-jaxb, has a non-UTF8 character in one of the author names which causes the maven build to fail with the IBM JDK 1.5.0 on Linux. I can confirm that this does not cause a problem with the same JDK (same version and build at least) on Windows XP. I tried using different maven-jaxb-plugins from a variety of repositories. All failed for other reasons. There is a manual work around to the problem, i.e. remove the non-UTF8 characters, so I don't think that this, on its own is a blocker. I've raised http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TUSCANY-1296 for this. Simon
