Craig, Mathew,
I've updated the sections 4.Tools and 5.Participation on the JDO wiki http://wiki.apache.org/jdo/ for information on the setup steps that I was missing. For feedback from the newcomer perspective: the biggest issue, I think, is that it's hard to find the JDO WiKi page ! When I started on the setup steps, I hadn't saved the JDO WiKi URL and could barely find it again: - searching for 'jdo' from http://wiki.apache.org doesn't find it ! - googling for 'apache jdo' finds it on the second search-result page with http://db.apache.org/ojb/ found first - searching for 'jdo' from http://www.apache.org doesn't find anything - searching for 'jdo' from http://incubator.apache.org finds some geronimo and derby pages but not the wiki jdo Martin