Continuing the discussion started in GERONIMO-4429...

How is your environment setup -
What version of Maven (should be 2.0.9)?
What version of Java (should be Java SE 5)?
How much memory does your machine have (probably need 1GB)?


-Donald

Ceki Gulcu wrote:
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> After successfully following the "5-minute Tutorial on Enterprise
> Application Development with Eclipse and Geronimo" [1] I would like to
> build an ear file (ready for deployment in Geronimo) from Maven
> pom.xml files, similar to the "mytime" project part of the Geronimo
> sample appliccations.
> 
> Unfortunately, I am having trouble building the "mytime" sample
> application. I obtained it via Subversion at [2]. For one, it takes a
> very long time to build, in the order of several hours.
> 
> Looking at the pom files, one can see that,
> 
> org.apache.geronimo.samples:mytime depends on
> org.apache.geronimo.samples:samples:2.12 .pom which in turn depends on
> org.apache.geronimo.samples:samples-parent-2.1.2 pom which in turn 
> depends on
> org.apache.geronimo.genesis.config:project-config:1.4:pom  which depends on
> org.apache.geronimo.genesis.config:config:1.4:pom which in turn depends on
> org.apache.geronimo.genesis:genesis:1.4:pom etc...
> 
>  From a pedagogical point of view, requiring that many dependencies
> makes it hard to follow this sample application.
> 
> Is there a sample or maven archetype for a Enterprise Application
> Project, compatible with Geronimo, for mere mortals?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> [1] http://tinyurl.com/5jj6zo
> [2] http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/samples/trunk/samples
>