Steve, I hope you noted my tongue in cheek approach. I was in the process of documenting the steps for one of my people and thought it might be useful for others trying to do what "should be simple" ;-)
I hoped you would notice my Ant comment....as one of the Acknowledged Reviewer's of your book on Ant, I am happy you did. See my additional comments below. Michael Oliver AppsAsPeers LLC 7391 S. Bullrider Ave. Tucson, AZ 85747 Phone:(520)574-1150 Fax:(520)844-1036 -----Original Message----- From: Steve Loughran [mailto:steve_l@;iseran.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 2:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: As soon as I read...the next step should be simple... > Axis is ok, the Installation Guide sucks, but that's ok, I won't be > reading that again...;-)> I rewrote a fair bit of the doc last weekend, so I am disappointed that you find how I spent my friday evening unsatisfactory. Perhaps you would like to contribute some of your spare time to the task of improving the docs. [Mike Oliver>>] well I guess I already did, in a sense, Step 3/5 needs some more meat...as in an example from the distribution as I did. I don't know enough yet to be more than chaff or background noise like this at the moment, but I will offer suggestions directly to you if you are the POC. Just in case you didn't notice yet, there are two Step 3's and no Step 5. Your mention of step 0 makes me think you have the updated version already - Did you look at the web site or did you look at the version which came with your distribution? [Mike Oliver>>] I suppose if I had known there was a version with the distribution I would have....but like most I saw the Installation Guide on the web site before I downloaded the distribution, so since its already there when I am ready to install... > So I go to the \samples\message\ where I find the deploy.wsdd > > "Here we go!" I say to myself. > > java org.apache.axis.client.AdminClient > -lhttp://localhost:8080/axis/services/AdminService deploy.wsdd > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > javax/servlet/ServletContext....ok back to the classpath. Bug in axis1.0 on java1.4; is now fixed. The reason it isnt in the docs was because it is a bug, one that everyone thought was fixed before Axis1.0 shipped. I guess if you are a representative example of a user who reads the web site docs rather than the ones that came with their version, then we have scope to mention the bug in the install docs along with the fix (get a nightly build). [Mike Oliver>>] a note on the web site to "refer to the version in the distribution for the latest (nightly) updates" might be enough to get some to look there. > Still unclear whether I must copy the classes first then deploy or if > the deploy copies the classes for me....seems like if I were deploying > to remote machine the AdminClient should copy the classes for me admin client just tells the server about another service; the files should be there. so copy them first [Mike Oliver>>] ;-) a left handed comment, I was suggesting the AdminClient should copy the classes for me, I see this as a big win as it would always ensure the right ones were deployed. > too....oh well quit while you are a head, java head that is, OOP junky, > X Generation. Let's see what will Ant do for me...;-) [Mike Oliver>>] Something I didn't mention because I haven't looked to see if someone else has noticed...the link to the AdminServlet is not available, if its still on your desktop you should commit it for tonights build...;-) Also in cvs are the docs for ant tasks you need, including <axis-admin> [Mike Oliver>>] thanks, we are basing all of our Java adaptors on axis so we will be very active.
