Discussion interspersed… Greg Trasuk
On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Dennis Reedy <dennis.re...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Feb 8, 2015, at 1122AM, Greg Trasuk <tras...@stratuscom.com> wrote: >> >> >> Hi Dennis: >> >> As with Pat’s comments, thanks for the input. One loses the “beginner’s >> eye” after working on something for a while. >> >> Anyhow, the README instructions are intended as a “bootstrap” that gets you >> to the real instructions that are in the site that’s built when you run ‘mvn >> site’. However, as Pat has already found out, Eclipse and NetBeans bundle >> an older version of Maven that doesn’t know Markdown. See my other message >> for instructions. > > Humm, maybe the generated site should just be included in the distribution > under a docs directory, and an index.html in the root folder just point to it. > Yes, the “river-examples” distribution could certainly do that. I’ll have to do some thinking on the best way to mix “source” and “target/generated” stuff in a distribution. Something about it is bothering me subliminally right now, but I can’t quite put my finger on it. I certainly think the example docs should be on river.apache.org. >> >> For your convenience, I’ve copied the site onto my ‘people.apache.org’ site: >> >> http://people.apache.org/~gtrasuk/river/getting-started/ >> >> The testing folders are a Maven artifact. I’m all for a testing example, >> but the code contained in the hello-service is too trivial to bother >> creating unit-tests for, IMO. > > IMO, a complete example should provide all aspects of developing and testing > a River project. Although the test case(s) would be trivial, providing > guidelines on how to bootstrap the environment to enable a client to discover > a service and simply assert the response is not. > Could you outline what you have in mind? > Regards > > Dennis
