Writing an article and having nothing but trouble...

["William B. Zimmerly" <bi...@zimmerly.com>]

Dear Apache Geronimo Group,

I was contracted by IBM to write a series of articles on Apache
Geronimo, but I am having *nothing but trouble* in building Geronimo
from sources.

Every time I try to build the project with "maven", "maven new", or
countless other maven commands like "maven m:clean m:clean-repo new".

In *every* case, the same problem presents itself --> 302 Errors when
Maven tries to pull "plugins" from the Internet. Some come down fine,
but there is always one that prevents me from building the system
successfully. *** HELP!!!! ***

Here are the sources that I am building from:

geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.0.tar.gz
maven-1.1-beta-2.tar.gz
subversion-1.3.2.tar.gz
j2sdk-1_4_2_11-nb-5_0-linux.bin

What can be done about this problem? Not being one of the authors of the
Apache Geronimo system -- without having an intimate knowledge of the
system -- what can I do?

I have a Friday, June 30th deadline on my article and after trying to do
so for over a week, I have yet to be able to build this system. I am now
seeking help to know what the secret to building a Geronimo system is.
Please help ... soon!

Sincerely,
Bill

Re: Writing an article and having nothing but trouble...

[Aaron Mulder <am...@alumni.princeton.edu>]

I didn't think that Maven 1 really downloaded a lot of Maven plugins
during a build.  Can you say which specific downloads are failing?

If you think you have most or all of the needed files locally, you can
run Maven with the -o command to stay offline.  Then whenever
something fails due to a missing download, you can either build just
that module online or manually download the missing file(s).

Thanks,
    Aaron

On 6/25/06, William B. Zimmerly <bi...@zimmerly.com> wrote:
> Dear Apache Geronimo Group,
>
> I was contracted by IBM to write a series of articles on Apache
> Geronimo, but I am having *nothing but trouble* in building Geronimo
> from sources.
>
> Every time I try to build the project with "maven", "maven new", or
> countless other maven commands like "maven m:clean m:clean-repo new".
>
> In *every* case, the same problem presents itself --> 302 Errors when
> Maven tries to pull "plugins" from the Internet. Some come down fine,
> but there is always one that prevents me from building the system
> successfully. *** HELP!!!! ***
>
> Here are the sources that I am building from:
>
> geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.0.tar.gz
> maven-1.1-beta-2.tar.gz
> subversion-1.3.2.tar.gz
> j2sdk-1_4_2_11-nb-5_0-linux.bin
>
> What can be done about this problem? Not being one of the authors of the
> Apache Geronimo system -- without having an intimate knowledge of the
> system -- what can I do?
>
> I have a Friday, June 30th deadline on my article and after trying to do
> so for over a week, I have yet to be able to build this system. I am now
> seeking help to know what the secret to building a Geronimo system is.
> Please help ... soon!
>
> Sincerely,
> Bill
>
>
>

Re: Writing an article and having nothing but trouble...

[Christoph Sturm <ch...@gmail.com>]

why do yo need to build from sources?

you could just use the 1.0 or 1.1 binaries.

regards
 chris

On 6/25/06, William B. Zimmerly <bi...@zimmerly.com> wrote:
> Dear Apache Geronimo Group,
>
> I was contracted by IBM to write a series of articles on Apache
> Geronimo, but I am having *nothing but trouble* in building Geronimo
> from sources.
>
> Every time I try to build the project with "maven", "maven new", or
> countless other maven commands like "maven m:clean m:clean-repo new".
>
> In *every* case, the same problem presents itself --> 302 Errors when
> Maven tries to pull "plugins" from the Internet. Some come down fine,
> but there is always one that prevents me from building the system
> successfully. *** HELP!!!! ***
>
> Here are the sources that I am building from:
>
> geronimo-tomcat-j2ee-1.0.tar.gz
> maven-1.1-beta-2.tar.gz
> subversion-1.3.2.tar.gz
> j2sdk-1_4_2_11-nb-5_0-linux.bin
>
> What can be done about this problem? Not being one of the authors of the
> Apache Geronimo system -- without having an intimate knowledge of the
> system -- what can I do?
>
> I have a Friday, June 30th deadline on my article and after trying to do
> so for over a week, I have yet to be able to build this system. I am now
> seeking help to know what the secret to building a Geronimo system is.
> Please help ... soon!
>
> Sincerely,
> Bill
>
>
>


-- 
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