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
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