SNAPSHOT RELEASE I really want to be able to have a downloadable snapshot release. We want to make it easy for people to download and extract a zipped file and get started with openejb quickly. Downloading maven first, then checking out the whole thing and building it and then extracting the snapshot for usage is really not a very comfortable thought if somebody had to try to use openejb. It would easily take more than 1.5 hours of somebody's time, before they can even start using openejb. On top of that they will have to find the zip file from openejb3\assembly\openejb-standalone\target directory. I dont think this is very intuitive , even though it is well documented by Jacek on the wiki. Maybe we already have a link to the snapshot release, but I dont know where to find it
SETUP DOCS I want to be able to add some documentation, so that if anybody wanted to use openejb with eclipse, then they should be able to setup their environment in a few minutes, provided they have downloaded eclipse and openejb. I would also like to provide some step by step kind of docs to write a few ejb's in eclipse, deploy and test them in openejb. THE PROBLEM My biggest hurdle at this point is Maven. I do not fully understand it and cannot spend enough time on it to be able to fix the problem mentioned below: If i run mvn -Dassemble clean install from root, filtering doesnt work. however, if i simply run mvn from the openejb-standalone module, filtering works fine. I did try to spend some time on it, but could not spend too much time. One thing which i have learnt is that we need to specify explicit versions of any plugins we are using in maven. In future, maven is going to make it mandatory to specify explicit versions, so it is going to be a good idea to adopt that strategy right away. May I also suggest that we do not use beta versions of plugins if they have not been properly tested. Lets stick to the stable releases even if we lose some cool functionality provided by the beta. We atleast know that it works and will continue to work (unless some bug was overlooked, but chances of that happening are lesser for stable than beta versions) MAVEN and OPENEJB GURUS -- If you can point me in the right direction to fix the above issue, that would be awesome!!. Once the above problem is fixed, then if somebody can provide any guidance on how to automatically link the snapshot release on the openejb website, that would be a big help. -- Karan Malhi
