----- Original Message ----- From: "Anecito, Anthony (HQP)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Steve Loughran'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:21 Subject: RE: Performance
> Hi Steve, > > Your answers helped a lot. I do not normally "get" source code unless > absolutely necessary. If I did then I would have been on the Axis dev > message thread and more likely this message would not have occurred. > > Many Thanks, > Tony > I understand why you dont want to d/l the source. too many OSS projects rely on the source as a substitute for documentation -but if you follow that argument then I'd have to have the source for my server's OS (linux), toolchain (gnu), app server (tomcat), IDE (jedit when I dont use intellij) and all the components: log4j, junit, castor, hsql, .... As it is I choose to only have the source for Ant and Axis updated off CVS on a regular basis; I keep the source of most of the jars I use to hand so I can step into them during debugging. But Axis's documentation is weak, and as you do need to code against the axis classes, it helps to have the source in hand. It also gives you the opportunity to fix bugs, or at least add extra logging statements to find out why things arent working, and additions like that can only benefit everyone else as well. -steve
