Sanjiva Weerawarana wrote:
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?
I couldn't agress less :-) I find the WAR very useful. Especially for beginners and first time users. They can just copy that file into their web container and start playing with the new framework. They will find out that there are some new concepts like modules or upload mechanisms, and they will get a good first impression within minutes. It's also a very nice show case to see the service upload button work. It'd be nice to have a sample AAR for download somewhere, as well as a sample client, so that you can just upload the AAR with a few clicks, start the client and... it works. On the other hand, if the first impression of Axis2 1.1 will be, that there is no WAR anymore and that you first have to build it yourself, many users will be disappointed and won't understand why it was removed (as I wouldn't understand it). It doesn't hurt to offer it for download, it's just a file on a web server, that can be created automatically in the build process for the release. Personally, I use the WAR file very often just to test some stuff. I have a collection of AAR files, which I can copy into the WARs and start testing. Also, please don't forget that not every person who is potentially interested in Axis2 has Ant installed on their machine! Sure, they can install it, but that's just an annoying, additional step. I agree with Deepal: don't remove the WAR. PS: Why does it work with Tomcat only? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
