Warren provided a link (http://herebebeasties.com/2007-10-07/wicket-quickstart/) to a very helpful site that demonstrates:
1. Using Maven2 to download the Wicket Quickstart project, 2. Downloading the Eclipse plug-in for Maven2, 3. Configuring Eclipse to find Maven2, and 4. Running the Quickstart application in Eclipse. I'm a bit confused as to the relationship between these three. The Maven2 documentation says that this plug-in allows maven to be run from within Eclipse, rather than using the command-line. But in the demo it seems to be doing more than that. In the demo, Eclipse complains about unknown dependencies in the Quickstart project until a a configuration variable in Eclipse is set to a Maven2 directory; then Eclipse finds the Quickstart's dependencies. What exactly is the relationship between Maven2 and Eclipse when using this plug-in? Does it tell Eclipse to forgo its normal project description format and instead rely on Maven2 to describe the project and replace Eclipse' native build commands? When the demonstrator downloads the Eclipse plug-in for Maven2 (or is it rather a Maven2 plug-in for Eclipse?), Maven downloads a bunch of stuff including a Wicket jar. That surprised me. Why would it assume that a user of Maven2 with Eclipse would need Wicket? Is Maven2 actually smart enough to look in the Quickstart project to see what Eclipse needs to run it? What if I had installed Maven2 and the Eclipse plug-in _before_ downloading the Quickstart project to begin developing in Wicket? Please for give my naivite, but Eclipse, Maven2 and the Wicket Quickstart project are all new to me, and I'm getting as to what exactly is the flow of information between these components as we set up the environment. /Frank -----Original Message----- From: Warren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 3:58 PM To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: RE: Difficulty getting QuickStart I was having some problems until I went to this site: http://herebebeasties.com/2007-10-07/wicket-quickstart/ There is a screencast there that will show you everything. It was real helpful. > -----Original Message----- > From: Frank Silbermann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 1:52 PM > To: users@wicket.apache.org > Subject: Difficulty getting QuickStart > > > I wrote in earlier about a problem I had in less-old releases of > Wicket 1.2. Since no more work is being done on that version, I > thought I'd try the sample on Wicket 1.2. I figured the easiest > approach was to download the Wicket 1.3 QuickStart application. That > requires Maven, which I've never before used. I downloaded and > installed Maven (I assume correctly) and then followed the > instructions to get the QuckStart application, but the Maven command > failed with the following output. Can anyone tell me what I did > wrong? (I apologize if this is really a Maven question, but obtaining > QuickStart is my only reason for messing with Maven.) > > C:\>mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.apache.wicket > -DarchetypeArtifactId=wicket-archetype-quickstart > -DarchetypeVersion=1.3.3 -DgroupId=com.mycompany > -DartifactId=myproject [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. > [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central > [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could > not be retrieved from repository: central due to an error: Error > transferring file [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' > does not exist or no valid version could be found [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > [INFO] Total time: 21 seconds > [INFO] Finished at: Thu May 01 15:42:12 CDT 2008 [INFO] Final Memory: > 1M/2M [INFO] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- > > > > /Frank > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
