David Thanks for your reply. I think you have done a lot already by providing so much information. I for one am grateful. All the best.
On 10/31/07, David Sean Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:52 AM, funky01 wrote: > > > Hi > > > > Yes, i have exactly the same. > > There are certain things in the tutorial that i never could be sure > > of, for > > which i have made certain assumptions: > > > > 1: tomcat-express > > I never knew where this directory should have come from. It was not > > in the > > tutorial so what i did was that i created the directory myself and > > then used > > the jetspeed installer and installed a 'Jetspeed-2 Standard with > > only the > > required Administrative Portlets' in that directory. > > > From the Getting Started doc: > > http://portals.apache.org/tutorials/jetspeed-2/01/first-steps.html > > "For the purpose of the training, lets all use the same Tomcat home, > point it to the /JetspeedTraining/tomcat-express directory." > > I guess I make assumptions about knowing what a Tomcat home is > > > 2: mvn archetype:create ............ DarchetypeVersion=2.1 > > I could not find this in Maven. I downloaded version 2.1-dev > > according to an > > earlier mail out and manually created the directory structure in my > > maven > > local repository. > > Its a Jetspeed plugin for Maven-2, it should auto download and install > > > > > 3: This led to maven succeding until it asked for > > jetspeed-2-2.1.pom which > > it could not find from any where and finally according to one of the > > previous mail outs i saw the path to download jetspeed-2-2.1- > > dev.pom and i > > manually added this to my maven local repository. > > > > From there i arrived at the problem that i am experiencing now. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > <file:///C:/JetspeedTraining/maven/repository/org/apache/portals/ > > jetspeed-2/jetspeed-2/2.1-dev/jetspeed-2-2.1-dev.pom> > > > I am finding that getting started with Maven-2 is hard for developers > with varying experience levels. I just don't have to bandwidth to > hand hold people through all the problems that come up with the > tutorial + Maven2 > The tutorial was originally written for a training class where I > provided a JetspeedTraining directory, so there may be assumptions > there as well that files exist when they don't > > From all these problems on the list, I decided to abandon the > Maven-2 tutorial and started on a second tutorial with Ant, but I > never finished it due largely to poor reception from the community > If interested, you can walk through this tutorial up until section 2, > where I stopped writing > > http://people.apache.org/~taylor/tutorial/docs/site/ > > Basically I stopped working on it because all I received was negative > complaints about how people want to provide their own Tomcat, and how > useless the tutorial is by providing a Tomcat embedding in it > I took this as a cue that maybe I should get out of the tutorial > business > And that is where I stand currently, I will revisit this again in 2.2 > when we rewrite the Maven-2 build and plugins and probably will focus > on 100% Eclipse/Maven-2-eclipse plugin based development for tutorials > I was planning on replacing the Maven-2 tutorial with the Ant > tutorial for 2.1.3 release, but stopped when the feedback was negative > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
