Re: Writing an article and having nothing but trouble...

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 20:31:38 -0700

Hi Bill,

There are quite a few people experiencing problems with the build. The developers are working to fix the problems and its not consistent. So if you could post some of the errors you are getting while building it might help others to help (i.e. the terminal output you are seeing) you.

If you are getting 302 errors I'm not sure what this is all about, could have something to do with the recent codehaus melt down but I'm not sure. I have experienced many build problems but nothing with 302 errors.

Maven often receives timeouts while trying to populate the repository so it might help to just rerun 5 or 6 times. These problems are especially frequent on Monday mornings.

Bottom line, you are not alone but don't expect it to be fixed by your deadline :-)

There are several discussions related to this topic currently happening on the dev list.

You can see them at nabble here;


search for maven or maven 2 to find the discussions.

Good luck,


On Jun 27, 2006, at 11:32 PM, William B. Zimmerly wrote:

Dear Apache Geronimo Group,

I was contracted by IBM to write a series of articles on Apache
Geronimo, but I am still having *nothing but trouble* in building Geronimo
from sources.

Every time that I try to build the project with "maven", "maven new", or
countless other maven commands like "maven m:clean m:clean-repo new", it
fails to build from source.

Errors that I have seen are "302 Errors" where modules the system 
is attempting to download are not where it expects them to be, errors
that there are "goals" that cannot be fulfilled for various reasons.

*** HAS ANYONE SUCCESSFULLY DOWNLOADED AND BUILT GERONIMO FROM
    THE FOLLOWING SOURCES? ***

geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.0.tar.gz
maven-1.1-beta-2.tar.gz
subversion-1.3.2.tar.gz
j2sdk-1_4_2_11-nb-5_0-linux.bin

If my sources are incorrect, would someone please tell me what sources 
can be downloaded that will build Geronimo successfully?

My tests of binary installs work fine -- but my article is about 
building from sources too, and so far, it has been a very disappointing
experience. What can be done about this problem? Not being one of 
the authors of the Apache Geronimo system -- without having an intimate 
knowledge of the system -- what can I do?

I have a Friday, June 30th deadline on my article and after trying to do
so for over a week, I have yet to be able to build this system. I am now
seeking help to know what the secret to building a Geronimo system is.
Please help ... soon!

Sincerely,
Bill



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