On 12/29/05, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought I'd have some fun looking at how to do the geronimo > security integration, so I started out by trying to build jetspeed > and get it running on something. Here are a few comments that might > help out other new users. > > The documentation uniformly claims that hslqldb is the default db, > but the build appears to use derby. This makes me distrust > everything the documentation says.
I will patch the places in the documention where hsqldb is mentioned. > > The build forces me to set a bunch of parameters relating to where > tomcat is, but AFAICT they are never used in the main build. After I > set them and run maven allBuild, my tomcat install is unchanged. I'm > not sure why someone who wants to run jetspeed on say jetty should be > forced to set a lot of parameters that are tomcat specific. Perhaps > the only checks for these parameters being set could be when the part > of the plugin that uses them is executed? That is a good idea. I'll look into that. > > The maven plugin seems to require quite a few dependencies that are > not listed as maven dependencies. The plugin expects them to be in > > ~/.maven/repository/org.apache.portals.bridges/wars > > but on cvs.apache.org they are in > > http://cvs.apache.org/repository/org.apache.portals.bridges/ > > which definitely seems like a mistake to me. > > I also wonder why the maven plugin has so many portlet apps to deploy > hardcoded into it. This seems contrary to the purpose of a plugin to > me. Another design choice might be to have a plugin goal to iterate > through the dependencies in the project.xml and deploy specially > marked dependencies. Then you could have a couple of example > projects using the plugin that deployed the full or min set of > portlet apps. Although I'm not yet familiar with what the plugin is > supposed to do I think this might provide a useful prototype for > people to build other portals off of. > > Many thanks, > david jencks > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Philip Donaghy donaghy.blogspot.com del.icio.us/donaghy/philip Skype: philipmarkdonaghy Office: +33 5 56 60 88 02 Mobile: +33 6 20 83 22 62 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
