We really are right on the verge of a big renewal of the documentation. Try to be patient ... it's going to be a huge improvement.
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Newham, Cameron <cameron.new...@bl.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > > > I've been away from Tapestry for quite a while and haven't done any > serious Tapestry stuff for at least 9 months. I have come back to find > everything broken and I feel like a complete newbie <sigh>. Could > someone set me straight. > > > > Problem 1 (which I have solved) is that I found Maven refused, when > using the "Quickstart Archetype", to download > http://tapestry.formos.com/maven-snapshot-repository/archetype-catalog.x > ml giving "connection refused" even though it had no trouble > downloading everything else and I could access this file via my browser. > I am behind a corporate firewall, so there seems to be an issue here > with this Tapestry repository location (I had no problems when I > attempted this at home). I spent two days on this and eventually got the > Maven source and modified LightweightWagon and hardcoded our proxy > server. Probably not the right thing to do but it worked - perhaps > someone can suggest what should be done (I tried everything including > various things in my settings.xml, the global settings.xml and even went > as far as using cntlm, although that was not necessary and didn't solve > it anyway). > > > > Problem 2 - http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/tutorial1/first.html > is out of date and doesn't work. As I'm sure you are aware "create" is > deprecated. When it's changed to "generate" it does d/l a lot of stuff > but the build fails (it throws an exception inside Maven). > > > > Problem 3 - Having failed on (2) I tried the "Quickstart Archtype" > http://tapestry.apache.org/tapestry5.1/quickstart/ . Great - it does > work and mvn jetty:run works. However, when I create a new Project and > place the code into Eclipse it does not work. I can't import it as it's > not an Eclipse Project. Jetty runs when the project is run in Eclipse > but the Index page in the browser just has "[[missing key: greeting]]" > and nothing else. > > > > > > To add to this tale of woe, my last big Tapestry project no longer > works. I fire it up and now get Jetty giving me a 503 code, yet it was > working fine a year ago. > > > > Anyway, I would just like a nice clean simple example that works in > Eclipse so I can begin coding a new webapp. > > > > I am at my wits end... :-( > > > > > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Creator of Apache Tapestry The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to learn how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! (971) 678-5210 http://howardlewisship.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tapestry.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tapestry.apache.org
