I bumped into Jimmy. It just turns out that his proxy was not set up. Having
seen this sort of problem in other corporate situations (firewalls, proxies,
locally renewed passwords etc) I guessed what it might be straight away and
when he changed the settings (in the right file) it just started to work (as
usual with Wicket). 
He is now back on track, spending time on Wicket (rather than Maven2), and
enjoying it again. This is not an atypical story - in fact the person who
started this thread because he was so "disgusted" in the packaging of the
examples etc is now helping other people with their Wicket questions, just 3
days later! I was intending not to get involved on this, now far too long
and too "all-purpose"ified  thread, but the mood has changed somewhat.

Yes, a zip file with everything in it is a decent option for newcomers (but
who's going to maintain it and keep it up to date? - maybe when 1.3 final is
released this could be feasible), but it also has a lot of drawbacks, many
of which have already been touched on in this thread.

I still say that assuming you have a working Maven2 set up already or are
able to achieve this without too much pain including setting up proxies
etc..., and this, AFAICS, is where more than a few people get frustrated and
start, totally incorrectly but perhaps understandably, thinking that Wicket
is broken or hard to get started with, following the instructions now linked
to from the Wicket homepage make it _really_ so fast and ever so easy to get
up and running with Wicket, with all the advantages of the repository etc .

Regards - Cemal
http://jWeekend.co.uk jWeekend.co.uk   




Martijn Dashorst wrote:
> 
> Did you type that capitalized Org yourself or is that something your
> email client did?
> 
>> Org.apache.wicket:wicket-archetype-quickstart:jar:1.3.0-beta3
>   ^
> 
> I guess you have made a typing error, since I have been able to use it
> (as have many others).
> 
> Martijn
> 
> 
> On 9/11/07, jlawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi I have been trying to use the quickstart for beta3 with the Maven
>> command as stated on the wicket site and it is not working.
>>
>> Build Error
>> Unable to download file...
>> Org.apache.wicket:wicket-archetype-quickstart:jar:1.3.0-beta3
>>
>> Etc......
>>
>> Can anyone please advise.
>>
>> Jim
>> ------------------
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:11:20
>> To:users@wicket.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: First Day Disgust!
>>
>> no one is asking anyone here to become a maven guru. All we are asking
>> is that they use it to generate a quickstart project, which simply
>> involves following the directions.
>>
>> -igor
>>
>> On 9/11/07, Ayodeji Aladejebi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > maven maven maven, that is if all developers all over the world knows
>> what
>> > maven is. Ant was what i first knew until i started hearing maven and
>> infact
>> > it was mainly because of wicket that i learnt maven early before a
>> netbeans
>> > module came out.
>> >
>> > so really not all developers will have some patience to first google
>> maven
>> > fundamentals which is why i believe in:
>> >
>> > 1. Step 1, Install Your IDE (Everybody knows that)
>> > 2. Step 2, Install This Plugin (IDEs make that simple)
>> > 3. Step 3, Create a new Wicket Project and then BOOM it works without
>> even a
>> > line of code yet (as much as i hated SWT, i learnt it this way)
>> >
>> > And lets remember the success of the ASP.NET family, you install Visual
>> > Studio and then BOOM your sample project is ready. Then you see this 2
>> days
>> > old developer feeling like he can code every website. that "feeling" is
>> the
>> > success of every developer tool and dont let us forget that
>> >
>> > The Java community has a plethora of tools but as newer developers come
>> on
>> > board, they need a clean entrance and maven is not what you learn at
>> the
>> > early stage of your developer career (even though its simple to use,
>> infact
>> > simpler than i thought cuz i hated Ant)
>> >
>> >
>> > My take,
>> >
>> > While off course maven is still the used tool, but the community 
>> should
>> > bring the useful IDE plugins to the forefront for starters
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > On 9/11/07, Gerolf Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > On 9/10/07, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > I haven't used an Eclipse plugin for maven since the command line
>> > > > version works really well and my previous experiences with mevenide
>> > > > were less than ok (talking about 2 years ago!)
>> > > >
>> > > > Martijn
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > there seem to be a new maven-eclipse-integration plugin in town:
>> > > http://code.google.com/p/q4e/
>> > > it's supposed to be part of the eclipse foundation.
>> > > i haven't tried it out yet, but as i didn't really like m2eclipse, i
>> will
>> > > definitely give it a shot.
>> > >
>> > >   gerolf
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > > Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst
>> > > > Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta3 is released
>> > > > Get it now:
>> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta3/
>> > > >
>> > > >
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