Hi Terry, thanks for your interest, and thanks for flagging the issues you've encountered.
To take #3 first, I've fixed the link on the home page. There are actually two versions of the demo, one for JPA and a JDO. Admittedly the deploy is a bit flaky and that's something I've been meaning to fix - they get redeployed each night and it's a bit glitchy. You should (at least today) find that the JPA version of the demo is available ... https://demo-wicket.jpa.isis.incode.work/ Or, if you want to see something simpler, then the simpleapp (JDO) is up, https://simpleapp.jdo.isis.incode.work/. Re: #2, thanks for the suggestions on documentation improvements. I guess we haven't documented anything because we haven't hit an issue, though I agree that the prereqs are not obvious. So I've updated the quick start section on the home page to also list them, basically JDK 11 and Maven 3.6+. Re: #1, unfortunately I can't reproduce your problem ... on a brand new Ubuntu VM, with just the prereqs installed, I was able to pull everything down and run the simpleapp. What I have done on the home page is changed the "mvn clean install" command a little, to deactivate a couple of profiles which also pull from the ASF staging and our own nightly repo ... so that should reduce the noise and help track the issue. Try running with the -X flag also, ie "mvn clean install -Dskip.staging -Dskip.nightly -X" The other thing you can do is just to clone the github repo ( https://github.com/apache/isis-app-simpleapp) and check out the "jpa" branch, which should correspond to M9. Let us know how you get on. You might also want to join the ASF slack, we can send an invite to you to our channel if you wish. Cheers Dan On Sun, 11 Dec 2022 at 14:50, Terry Lurie <tezza...@yahoo.co.uk.invalid> wrote: > Hi Team, > > I am evaluating Isis / Causeway in December 2022. There are some Quick > Start problems stopping me evaluating it further. > > Your project seems really exciting so although there were major issues I > wanted to let you know portions are currently broken. > > I'm an experienced java developer. > > *1/3) Quick Start Broken** > * > > Your Quickstart -> > > > APP=isis-app-simpleapp > BRANCH=jpa > curl > https://codeload.github.com/apache/$APP/zip/$BRANCH | jar xv > cd > $APP-$BRANCH > > mvn clean install > mvn -pl webapp spring-boot:run > > is currently broken. > > Looking at the maven output, it appears the version 2.0.0-M9 > dependencies are not published properly. > > Maven error: > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project simpleapp-jpa-webapp: Could > not resolve dependencies for project > org.apache.isis.starters:simpleapp-jpa-webapp:jar:2.0.0-M9: Could not > find artifact > org.apache.isis.starters:simpleapp-jpa-module-simple:jar:2.0.0-M9 in > nightly-builds (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache-isis-commit > ters/isis-nightly/master/mvn-snapshots > <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache-isis-committers/isis-nightly/master/mvn-snapshots> > ) > > *2/3) Documentation assumes Quickstart succeeds* > > If the Quickstart breaks, the documentation has few workarounds. Perhaps > consider have the publishing of all the prerequisites automated somehow. > And possibly a scheduled pipeline check that the Quickstart process > actually succeeds. > > Or a break-glass section in the documentation for the learners like me > who stumble on the project at the time the Quickstart is broken. > > *3/3) https://demo-wicket.isis.incode.work/ is 404* > > Where your front page Quickstart section says: > > "You can also explore the Apache Isis programming model through the demo > app, running here <https://demo-wicket.isis.incode.work/>." > > The here link returns a 404 ( https://demo-wicket.isis.incode.work/ ) > > > What advice do you have for me to continue deeper evaluation until the > Quick Start process is fixed up ? > > > Terry. > >
