Simon,
What you don't understand is that this is an OS project. Let me explain some
basic concepts to you...
We the developers spend many hundreds and thousands of hours working on
these projects writing the best code we can. It takes donations from others
to help us finish them. In a commercial world like BEA, there are people who
are English majors who like computers who's job it is to spend all day long
documenting this stuff. Unfortunately, we do not have the luxury of hiring
people to sit around and do newbie documenation. As developers, we do our
best to document the code and provide Javadoc as well as provide working
stable code. It is up to other people to help us finish up the rest of the
project documentation. We are way to intimately familiar with the code to
provide a high level set of documentation for this stuff...the best that we
can do is provide the things like the TestBed.java class which exercises
about 99% of the core functionality of ECS. If it doesn't compile because it
is missing some classes, we kind of expect the users to be resourceful
enough to either get the right classes or simply comment out the parts that
are not needed for that period of time.
As it stands, there is 216 people on this mailing list right now. It is
totally unfortunate that not one single one of those people is willing to
stand up, help out and provide more documentation (what are you people doing
on this list???). Expecting us to do this entire project (I work on about 10
different OS projects + my day job) AND provide newbie documentation is
unfortunately far beyond my capabilities...
So, I apologize for falling short for you.
-jon
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