<div dir="ltr">Great feedback. <div><br></div><div>#1. The new website should help address the beginner's guide problem.</div><div><br></div><div>#2. We have discussed the problem of lack of detailed information in eclipse. This is a must.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm wondering about #3. The EE7 APIs should be added if you select the EE7 version of the specification. Is this not working? </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Vineet Reynolds Pereira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vpereira@redhat.com" target="_blank">vpereira@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hey all,<br>
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I managed to get a beginner (who shall be anonymous for now), to try out Forge 2. It turned out to be rather interesting, since he managed to build it from source, install JBossTools-Forge into Eclipse, before running into some issues. I think some of these would affect how we look at usability of Forge in several areas - the tooling in Eclipse, the web site etc.<br>
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Some of the questions that were asked were:<br>
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1. "Is there an overview or something of forge 1/2 ?"<br>
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and later (in response to this: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpou-FWWatI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpou-FWWatI</a>):<br>
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"not really, it tells me more about how powerful it is - but no overview, why I should do what, says I can use it from the command line but I did not spot how, ..."<br>
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I think a beginner guide would help here, that would help users who're new to even Java EE.<br>
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2. Later on, when using Forge in Eclipse, this feedback was offered:<br>
"I noticed on the 'Forge Run Command' dialog, the Tooltip did not really add much to what could be gained from the command name!<br>
...<br>
possible it might be a good idea to have a variable sized text panel in the bottom half to give a more detailed explanation"<br>
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I'm not sure if the Eclipse UI guidelines allow for that, but it's something to consider.<br>
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3. Another interesting issue is that of the EE 6/7 POMs being installed into the project:<br>
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* Selected 'JPA setup' version 2.1<br>
* Selected Wildfly Aplication Server<br>
* Specified: Java EE, forge-default<br>
* Modified HSQLDB to POSTGRES using java:jboss/datasource/ExamplDS as datasource,<br>
* and now pom.xml has <artifactId>jboss-javaee-6.0</artifactId> and other changes<br>
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The EE 7 APIs were expected to added here.<br>
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I've also raised FORGE-1385 for Java 1.7 support, but that's fixed and should be out in the next release, so it is moot.<br>
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Discuss!<br>
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Vineet<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Lincoln Baxter, III<br><a href="http://ocpsoft.org" target="_blank">http://ocpsoft.org</a><br>"Simpler is better."
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