If you are not familiar with Maven, I suggest you learn it because it will make life muuuch easier. The dependency plugin is functionally equivalent to apt-get, but for jars. Also, Maven integrates with Eclipse and Netbeans. Might integrate w/ other IDE's, but I know about those 2 for sure.
> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:17:28 +0200 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [castor-user] Install Castor on ubuntu > > Hi, > > > On 19.05.2010 17:08, Jorrit Wortel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Well actually we are trying to build Castor from the sources because on the > > site we saw that it was the archive containing the most dependencies and the > > full documentation. > I'd reconsider this assumption, to be honest. There's absolutely no need > to build Castor from sources if you just want to be using it for XML > data binding purposes and as a persistence tool. > > > We selected Castor because we want to use a framework to transform data from > > a relational database to XML and from an XML file to a relational database. > > We don't know what is the best option to do that: re using a .jar or > > compiling from the sources. > Just use the required JARs. Do not build from sources unless you want to > e.g. patch Castor. > > > Could you advice us on the best way to do it? > Simply download the required JARs from the download page, and put them > onto your classpath. Or as Brian has already suggested, use a build tool > such as Maven and all required JARs (incl. transitive dependencies) will > be downloaded for you. > > Cheers > Werner > > > > Best regards, > > Jorrit Wortel > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: > > http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1
