Hi, Eric checked the META (Maven Environment for Turbine Applications), a maven plugin to develop Turbine applications, into the 2.4-dev tree a while ago. I updated it for the 2.3 branch, wrote some docs about it and all in all I feel, that this is now getting ready to get some serious testing and workout by Turbine developers. In the end, I think that this is superior to the ageing TDK and should help you to get up to speed using Turbine much faster than the TDK.
Get the instructions on how to use this from here: http://www.apache.org/~henning/turbine-maven-plugin/ If you don't understand something: Ask. These are docs written by the guy who wrote the plugin. There might be things that were obvious to me which are not at all visible to an user. BTW: One drawback: You have to use maven. I use the 1.0RC3 release version and it went reasonably well. I gave the plugin limited testing on Windows (say: I worked after my own instructions using the maven 1.0-RC3 exe from maven.apache.org) and it worked well (I got the helloworld application. ;-) ) but Windows is a platform where I want some testing. I tested: Windows XP Professional Sun JSDK 1.4.2-04 from sun.com MySQL 3.23.58 from mysql.com Tomcat 5.0.24 from jakarta.apache.org maven-1.0-RC3 from maven.apache.org On (RedHat) Linux I'm using the plugin for months and I declare it stable. :-) : RedHat Linux 9 / RedHat Enterprise Linux 3 ES / Fedora Core 1 Sun JSDK 1.4.2-04 from sun.com MySQL 3.23.58 from mysql.com or PostgreSQL 7.3.6 from postgresql.org Tomcat 4.1.30 from jakarta.apache.org maven-1.0-RC3 from maven.apache.org If you find bugs or want enhancements, feel free to send your suggestions to the developer list or directly to me (I prefer the developer list because there are more eyes and I have an archive). One thing is definitely planned for the very near future: I need a "flavour" switch, which allows you to set up an application using a distinct flavour of Turbine. Current plans are "2.3", "2.3.1-dev" and "2.4-dev". I already know how to implement this, I just need the time to do so. Regards Henning -- Dipl.-Inf. (Univ.) Henning P. Schmiedehausen INTERMETA GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED] +49 9131 50 654 0 http://www.intermeta.de/ RedHat Certified Engineer -- Jakarta Turbine Development -- hero for hire Linux, Java, perl, Solaris -- Consulting, Training, Development "Fighting for one's political stand is an honourable action, but re- fusing to acknowledge that there might be weaknesses in one's position - in order to identify them so that they can be remedied - is a large enough problem with the Open Source movement that it deserves to be on this list of the top five problems." --Michelle Levesque, "Fundamental Issues with Open Source Software Development" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
