Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
To whom it may concern: Help! :) I am a Java developer with 10 years experience, a masters degree, an IQ above 160, and an excellent work ethic. I have spent 5 days trying to figure out how to add Ivy to my current project. I do not have another 5 days - that's just not practical at my job. I

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Harrigan
Hi David, I understand you frustration. The documentation isn't that great. At the moment I'm putting together a set of Ivy 101 articles that may be of benefit to others. I too went though time and effort to learn it and still some things are not too clear. However, I did get it to work, even to

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
David Harrigan: Many thanks for your reply. If there's any help I can be for your Ivy 101 articles (not only am I a rank beginner, with a beginner's perspective, which can sometimes be useful; but I was also an editor in a publishing house for 5 years, so I know a little about writing as well),

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Kirby Files
Sorry, David, I cannot help provide a link to different documentation. In regards to understanding Ivy better, one thing that I'd recommend is reading everything you can about the dependency conf attribute and defaultConfMapping. I didn't truly understand what I was doing with Ivy until I had a

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Alex Foreman
David Let me try to answer some of your questions. Ill answer inline. On 5 October 2010 18:03, David Sills dsi...@datasourceinc.com wrote: Archie: Thanks so much for your example. However, there's still a lot I don't understand. Let's start with the (simple?) first thing: dependencies

RE: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread David Sills
Alex: Thanks. That clarified a lot, as did actually going to the ivysettings file, grabbing the pattern, and substituting the values for organization and so forth from some of the dependencies in the ivy.xml file. The XML that my browser grabbed made things a good deal clearer and I see your

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Steve Miller
See below: On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, David Sills dsi...@datasourceinc.com wrote: Alex: Thanks. That clarified a lot, as did actually going to the ivysettings file, grabbing the pattern, and substituting the values for organization and so forth from some of the dependencies in the

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Geoff Clitheroe
This is excellent: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ap05068/index.html?ca=drs- This has a very good chapter - it's a little old (pre move to Apache) but the concepts are the same. http://www.manning.com/loughran/ This has a section in a chapter but I haven't read the book

Re: Question about documentation

2010-10-05 Thread Archie Cobbs
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 12:03 PM, David Sills dsi...@datasourceinc.comwrote: dependencies dependency org=org.apache.log4j name=log4j rev=1.2.15 conf=javac,test-default/ dependency org=net.sourceforge.jibx name=jibx rev=1.2.2 conf=base-runtime-xpp3,extras;bind-bind/