Maven can just produce a zip archive automagically, so perhaps someone can incorporate the following into the Wicket builds:
1) Get maven to produce a project based off the quickstart archetype 2) Get maven to zip the outcome for people to download. Might make the Maven phobic people happy and not cost a lot as far as maintenance. Craig. On 9/11/07, jweekend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I bumped into Jimmy. It just turns out that his proxy was not set up. > Having > seen this sort of problem in other corporate situations (firewalls, > proxies, > locally renewed passwords etc) I guessed what it might be straight away > and > when he changed the settings (in the right file) it just started to work > (as > usual with Wicket). > He is now back on track, spending time on Wicket (rather than Maven2), and > enjoying it again. This is not an atypical story - in fact the person who > started this thread because he was so "disgusted" in the packaging of the > examples etc is now helping other people with their Wicket questions, just > 3 > days later! I was intending not to get involved on this, now far too long > and too "all-purpose"ified thread, but the mood has changed somewhat. > > Yes, a zip file with everything in it is a decent option for newcomers > (but > who's going to maintain it and keep it up to date? - maybe when 1.3 final > is > released this could be feasible), but it also has a lot of drawbacks, many > of which have already been touched on in this thread. > > I still say that assuming you have a working Maven2 set up already or are > able to achieve this without too much pain including setting up proxies > etc..., and this, AFAICS, is where more than a few people get frustrated > and > start, totally incorrectly but perhaps understandably, thinking that > Wicket > is broken or hard to get started with, following the instructions now > linked > to from the Wicket homepage make it _really_ so fast and ever so easy to > get > up and running with Wicket, with all the advantages of the repository etc > . > > Regards - Cemal > http://jWeekend.co.uk jWeekend.co.uk > > > > > Martijn Dashorst wrote: > > > > Did you type that capitalized Org yourself or is that something your > > email client did? > > > >> Org.apache.wicket:wicket-archetype-quickstart:jar:1.3.0-beta3 > > ^ > > > > I guess you have made a typing error, since I have been able to use it > > (as have many others). > > > > Martijn > > > > > > On 9/11/07, jlawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi I have been trying to use the quickstart for beta3 with the Maven > >> command as stated on the wicket site and it is not working. > >> > >> Build Error > >> Unable to download file... > >> Org.apache.wicket:wicket-archetype-quickstart:jar:1.3.0-beta3 > >> > >> Etc...... > >> > >> Can anyone please advise. > >> > >> Jim > >> ------------------ > >> Sent with Instant Email from T-Mobile > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 07:11:20 > >> To:users@wicket.apache.org > >> Subject: Re: First Day Disgust! > >> > >> no one is asking anyone here to become a maven guru. All we are asking > >> is that they use it to generate a quickstart project, which simply > >> involves following the directions. > >> > >> -igor > >> > >> On 9/11/07, Ayodeji Aladejebi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > maven maven maven, that is if all developers all over the world knows > >> what > >> > maven is. Ant was what i first knew until i started hearing maven and > >> infact > >> > it was mainly because of wicket that i learnt maven early before a > >> netbeans > >> > module came out. > >> > > >> > so really not all developers will have some patience to first google > >> maven > >> > fundamentals which is why i believe in: > >> > > >> > 1. Step 1, Install Your IDE (Everybody knows that) > >> > 2. Step 2, Install This Plugin (IDEs make that simple) > >> > 3. Step 3, Create a new Wicket Project and then BOOM it works without > >> even a > >> > line of code yet (as much as i hated SWT, i learnt it this way) > >> > > >> > And lets remember the success of the ASP.NET family, you install > Visual > >> > Studio and then BOOM your sample project is ready. Then you see this > 2 > >> days > >> > old developer feeling like he can code every website. that "feeling" > is > >> the > >> > success of every developer tool and dont let us forget that > >> > > >> > The Java community has a plethora of tools but as newer developers > come > >> on > >> > board, they need a clean entrance and maven is not what you learn at > >> the > >> > early stage of your developer career (even though its simple to use, > >> infact > >> > simpler than i thought cuz i hated Ant) > >> > > >> > > >> > My take, > >> > > >> > While off course maven is still the used tool, but the community > >> should > >> > bring the useful IDE plugins to the forefront for starters > >> > > >> > Thanks > >> > > >> > On 9/11/07, Gerolf Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > >> > > On 9/10/07, Martijn Dashorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > I haven't used an Eclipse plugin for maven since the command line > >> > > > version works really well and my previous experiences with > mevenide > >> > > > were less than ok (talking about 2 years ago!) > >> > > > > >> > > > Martijn > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > there seem to be a new maven-eclipse-integration plugin in town: > >> > > http://code.google.com/p/q4e/ > >> > > it's supposed to be part of the eclipse foundation. > >> > > i haven't tried it out yet, but as i didn't really like m2eclipse, > i > >> will > >> > > definitely give it a shot. > >> > > > >> > > gerolf > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > > Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst > >> > > > Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta3 is released > >> > > > Get it now: > >> http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta3/ > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Buy Wicket in Action: http://manning.com/dashorst > > Apache Wicket 1.3.0-beta3 is released > > Get it now: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/wicket/1.3.0-beta3/ > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/First-Day-Disgust%21-tf4405663.html#a12621804 > Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
