[Springframework-developer] Sample Application build process

[Ken K. <kk...@kk...>]

Juergen,

The changes you made to the Petclinic build files have raised an 
interesting issue which applies to all sample programs:

The changes made now require a user of the sample app to download and 
build the entire Spring framework. It was specifically my intent with 
Petclinic to not require this. I had envisioned a separately 
downloadable distribution of the sample. Many if not most developers are 
just going to want to use the framework runtime jars, at least at first 
when they're taking it out for a test drive.

The prjzip ant target is only needed to create a distribution so it 
probably be in a separate file which will not be included in the 
distribution. This prjzip target will need to grab a current snapshot of 
the libs for inclusion in the distribution. I haven't quite worked out 
the best way to implement this yet.

What are your thoughts on this ?

Regards,

Ken