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I have gone through both chapter 1 and chapter 2 of the tutorials thus far. Both times I ended up with examples that didn't - and still don't - work. There are two things that I think would be very helpful: 1) Step by step instructions that make it very clear what you should do at each step. The tutorial already does have that in some ways, but the bigger problem is when the tutorial says something to the effect of "Do this and if you have problems look at this other page." That really isn't what a tutorial is about. If you want to get rid of the frustration that a new user is trying to overcome when working with ServiceMix, be very detailed with what needs to happen at every step of the way. Since ServiceMix has several components and technologies that it is trying to bind together it is very easy for information overload to occur. This means the contents of every change to a file and exactly what is typed on the command line in addition to what directory it should be in should be shown. 2) A final directory structure of all the completed files in an exercise. The chapter 2 example didn't say anything about adding the namespace definition to the other xml files. While this might be looked at as something that may be obvious it wasn't. Eventually I saw it and fixed it but it would have been helpful to have an "answer key" for the tutorial that is known to work. Since the example is built on incremental changes all it takes is for one step to be off but one small thing and then everything after that point won't work. Anyway, I hope these items would be added to the tutorial because it looks like ServiceMix has a lot of power but if the simplest examples can't be made to work then it can get very frustrating for a new user. Thanks, Andy -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tutorial-Suggestions-tp22991657p22991657.html Sent from the ServiceMix - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
