The war we ship is useless for *any* user except to run the sample services. That's it. NOTHING else. Do you agree with that assessment?
Because if they want to add their own services, they need to un-jar the WAR, and put stuff and then jar it up. All this would do is to not give them something that's essentially useless. However, if you really want to have that released all we have to do is type "ant" in the webapp dir and then distribute that too. So its not at all big deal to build it or dist it, but it does add complexity to first time users because they have to figure out what they need .. and first download the war and then realize that crap that's not enough because they don't have any development tools etc. and then go back and get the standard distribution. Sanjiva. On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 01:31 -0500, Deepal Jayasinghe wrote: > Hi Thilina ; > > > I have ripped off the axis2.war from the distributions. Users will > > have the ability to create axis2.war from the axis2 main binary > > distribution. This will help a lot to users who are planning to deploy > > axis2 in servlet containers other than tomcat. With this users will be > > able to customize (put service.aar's, etc..) the war easily.. > > > As a user (if I were user ) first thing I do is download the war and try > it. > > What are we gaining not shipping axis2.war ? > > I agree that user can download std and run the ant goal , well doesn't > that make unnecessary complication on users > - first need to down load ant > - then need to set the env variable for ant (ANT_HOME) > - then need to run the goal > > Please please , think about the simplicity , Axis2 is not only for geek > it should be useful for users who are just trying to use Axis2 as well. > > Dont think that everyone knows abt ant (like you do) and asking to do > everything by them selves. > > Btw - If we are asking users to run ant tasks , why do we want to think > about the releases, we can ask users to down load axis2 src and run ant > tasks (we can write down the supported ant task somewhere in axis2 site.). > > P.S :- As a developer I always love the simplicity and user > friendliness, o.w no one going to use Axis2. > > Thanks > Deepal > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
