Hi Ivan, Romain,

I probably support having a 'Documentation' item in the top menu.  At the 
moment there are all the subtopics, but nothing at the top-level says 
Documentation!  At a brief glance this is likely to give the impression that 
there isn't documentation, or that it's hard to find.

From an external perspective 'Documentation', 'Getting Started' and possibly 
'Examples' are good top-level headings.

I would suggest something like:
- Documentation
- Getting Starting
- Examples
- Blog
- Community 
- Downloads

I write quite a lot of documentation so my quick thoughts -- trying to be 
constructive here.

Reviewing the current 'Developer', 'Admin', 'Advanced' pages -- these are all 
lacking any overview to tell you the basics and badly empty. 
There needs to be some introductory text to start these sections and set the 
scene,  TomEE for Developers needs to start with an overview of what TomEE is & 
why it's good;  then have some simple guide or guides to writing JEE 
application, as the first (few) articles. These will show how to use TomEE's 
features.

'Developer' section should go something like:
- (introductory text)  TomEE is a JEE container. Advantages this gives.
- JEE Basics  -- basic outlines of how to write a JEE application & link to 
other guides
- Eclipse, Intellij Idea, Netbeans: TomEE in and IDE   (maybe:  but there's no 
real content here)
- JEE Feature Guides
- TomEE and Testing  

Perhaps there could be several guides to important JEE areas:
- JEE Guide -- CDI
- JEE Guide -- Datasource
- JEE Guide -- JPA
- JEE Guide -- EJB
- JEE Guide -- CXF & Webservices

The above topics map well to the areas in Examples 
http://tomee.apache.org/examples/index-ng.html which have good coverage of 
examples.. and outlining a little bit of concrete usage should allow good 
opportunities to explain TomEE's configuration, particular details etc. 

(Little bit of an insight here -- perhaps the fact that we haven't been 
focusing / docing based on the JEE features, has made it hard to write doc?)

I suggest 'Developer' section should not start with "All you need to know about 
TomEE classloading". This is not what new developer should need to get started 
with, and is a great way to scare people off. 

Busy these past couple of months, trying to offer some guidance to the best 
degree I can but don't have time available to actually do the writing.


Regards,
Thomas

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