Hi Josh, I got started with Mahout using Grant's article as an introduction -- the code included with it is a older than the 0.2 release.
Ant is used primarilly to build Grant's examples and as a launcher -- it sets up the classpath so that the examples can be run properly. The build script uses the pre-build version of mahout shipped with the bundle. I found that the article itself and the sample code provided was a great way to get started, but I quickly started working from the subversion repository once I had achieved the basics. I was mostly interested in clustering and that wasn't covered in the article to a great extent anyway. The mahout wiki is a great resource for exploring further. For what it's worth the mahout sources included in Grant's article and the sources obtainable as part of the release or from subversion must all be built using maven Hope this helps, Drew On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Patterson, Josh <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed that the article at: > > > > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-mahout/ > > > > uses Ant while release of Mahout 0.2 uses Maven. Also, the article's > included downloadable code includes what looks like a snapshot version > of Mahout 0.2 - is that essentially a copy of the release? Are there any > other differences I should note when working through these examples? > Thanks! > > > > Josh Patterson > > TVA > >
