Re: [Springframework-developer] Step-by-step tutorial feedback

[Lars F. <lar...@gm...>]

Thomas,

> Thanks for your feedback - this is important since it is easy to verify
> that my code works in my own "sandbox", but not that easy to verify that it
> works everywhere else.

Yes, and I try to use the tutorial like a less skilled programmer. If it works
for them, it's perfect.

> > As I think documentation is one of the crucial points for wide acceptance
> > of an Open Source solution I'll give some feedback on the step-by-step
> > tutorial provided by Thomas.
>
> Documentation is key for most developers - that's why it is hard to beat
> out Struts at the moment.

Yes that's hard but one year ago Struts didn't have anything like this.
I had to decide which framework to use for a bigger application and
I used WebWork despite of it's bad documentation. On the other hand
I could manage to use it fast because of it's simplicity.

> You are correct when you say that Part 3 is not as polished as Parts 1 and
> 2 - I am still working on it and I will verify that it all works on both
> Tomcat and a few other servers including WebLogic 8.1.  I just ran through
> Parts 1 and 2 deploying as a war file on WebLogic, and I have made a few
> changes to both parts.  I added a task to deploy as a war file and I also
> added a deploy.path in build.properties where you can specify a path to
> your deployment location.  If you are not using Tomcat, then you can remove
> all the Tomcat stuff from build.xml (everything related to Tomcat is now
> clearly marked at the end of the build script).  I'll follow up with
> updates to Part 3 later today or tomorrow.
>

Your tutorial is very good but it will become perfect :-)
I hardly can remember any tutorial providing Ant scripts and even JUnit tests 
(wow!). And it's written very well. 

Maybe JUnit should me moved to some kind of appendix or an own chapter
because it has nothing to do with core Spring functionality and many 
developers still don't know what JUnit is (I know what I'm talking about).

Thanks again
Lars