Need feedback on how to improve the Alfresco SDK

[jbarmash]

Hello,

I started making changes to the SDK to improve it for all developers. Here is a blog post describing changes made and pending changes:
     http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/jbarmash/2008/11/22/call-for-submissions-feedback-on-alfresco-sdk/

I am also soliciting feedback on what things are highest priority.  Please vote for what you think is most important.
     http://alfresco.uservoice.com/pages/sdk_improvement

Thanks,

Jean

[heislord5]

Thank you for the jar file.

I download SVN and imported to eclipse.  I get only 3 errors when eclipse builds it.  When I try to run the ant scripts though, first it did not find javac.  I added to Path environment variable but it still has errors trying to compile.  There's a billion ant tasks that can be run and no instruction on what I should be using for what.  When using SVN am I supposed to do an install of alfresco, or does building the source do everything?  I already set up the empty database as required and set up two empty tomcats (using different ports), but I put nothing in the tomcats.

I'm going to backtrack and try your jlan file with the SDK, but I would like to be able to do the full build.  Does anyone know if there is an effort to have a full explanation of running these samples?  If I get the SDK running I might go in and update the instructions.

Thanks,

Brad

[heislord5]

java.lang.IncompatibleClassChangeError

Ok.  I have no idea what to do with the SVN projects or why the ant builds don't work (or why they're even necessary if eclipse is building it internally).  I'm having problems packaging jlan  with the package ant task.  I receive the above message with the jlan version you sent me.  I do appreciate your effort, I guess its probably a latter version than is compatible with the downloadable SDK.

[maxmil]

It worked for me with the alfresco-jlan-embedded.jar that i copied from tomcat/WEB-INF/lib from the alfresco.war in the Labs install.