Basic Testing

[heislord5]

Hi,

I've been trying to use Alfresco for a few years now.  Every time I start to setup a development environment, I seem to run into some kind of problem.  Why is it that following the Wiki's seems to never work and why does it seem with every release, there is some file missing somewhere.  There's always some kind of easter egg hunt.

I mean, it seems like a really simple thing for one of the alfresco guys to load alfresco on a vm and test their packages before releasing to the public.  Is it too much to ask that someone involved in quality control actually install things like SDK on a VM before releasing it as a package to ensure all the files are there?

I followed the instructions on the SDK website (I think) and now I'm missing some kind of jlan files that were left out of the SDK, so I'm following the instructions found in a forum post to download the minisetup and get it from there.  This tells me that this SDK wasn't even tested once before Alfresco released it.  No one even tried to install it?

[heislord5]

I've given up on finding the jlan jar file for the SDK.  The one with the Enterprise version does not work (without giving a CIFS error).  There was none packaged with the Labs download or the SDK download.

Some people say you can build from SVN and use that one, but that basically makes the SDK useless, I mean if I have to go through the steps to set up SVN I might as well develop against SVN rather than setting up an SVN environment just to get and build the source for jlan so I can use it in the SDK environment.

Anyone know a better way?  I'm downloading SVN code now.

[mikeh]

It's an oversight with the SDK - please provide feedback here: http://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=15600&p=51184

Also, this is probably the jar you're looking for: http://svn.alfresco.com/repos/alfresco-open-mirror/alfresco/HEAD/root/projects/alfresco-jlan/jars/

Mike

[heislord5]

I accidentally responded at the other post.  I meant to say that I couldn't get SVN to work and the jlan jar is an incompatible version:

IncompatibleClassChangeError

Thanks for the effort though.  I would eventually like to get either SDK or SVN working.  I just don't understand why Alfresco doesn't invest some more effort into making this a little easier.  I bet there are bunches of people like me REALLY trying to learn this, but they make it soo hard to even just get a development environment up and running.

[heislord5]

Trying to get the 3.0 SDK to work was exacerbating.  I installed the 2.9 and it works.  I installed the 2.9 community edition as well so I could use the web client to view the results of the examples.

I updated the Wiki to fill in some missing information and to warn others to use the 2.9 SDK until the 3.0 SDK is fixed.  (And to also explain the usefulness of installing the full CE to see results of the examples.)