Thanks Jamey for the help. We gave students
users_at_socialsite.dev.java.net also for further technical questions.
Would like to see they get help from developers too :-)
Judy
Jamey Wood wrote:
> Hi Aravind,
>
> I'm glad to hear about your interest in SocialSite! For future
> reference, the best place to ask SocialSite-specific questions is on
> our "users_at_socialsite.dev.java.net" alias (CC'd).
>
>> 1.) When i give the full name of ant folder in the environment variable
>> path, it doesn't take it. If i give short variable names like 'Ant'
>> it takes
>> it and i am able to run ant from command prompt. In the sense that
>> when i
>> download Ant , i get the folder name as "Apache-Ant 1.7.1". So, give the
>> full name but the DOS shell doesn't take it , it says "ant" doesn't
>> exist
>> but if i give the path like "C:\Ant" in the Ant_home , it takes it. I
>> use
>> Windows-XP and is it because windows version doesn't support long file
>> names?
>>
>> Also, i tried giving the variable value in Quotes with full variable
>> name
>> and that works !!.
>>
>
>
> It sounds to me like you have this one figured out. I think that, as
> you've noted, you either need to put quotes around the pathname which
> includes spaces or just rename the ant directory to not have a space.
>
>> 2.) I installed Netbeans IDE 1.6 and tried to deploy the war file
>> (from the
>> Social Site directory) but when i create the project, it is asking me to
>> include web-inf folder which i didn't find in the war file (after
>> unzipping
>> it). I just created a simple web project and tried to import the war
>> file..My goal was to get the application running on netbeans (Had
>> already
>> included glassfish while installation of netbeans).Is this enough to
>> test
>> for black box testing?
>>
>
>
> I don't normally use an IDE. But most other SocialSite developers do
> their work using NetBeans. So I'll defer to one of them to answer
> this question.
>
>> So, i request you to let me know as to what i should do to get the
>> application running on netbeans and also how to add new gadgets after
>> that.
>>
>> 3.) Finally, to do white box testing, i downloaded the source files
>> but when
>> i see the instructions to test the installation using source files, the
>> online doc says that i need to use svn to get the files from the domain
>> java.net. Could you explain this?
>>
>
>
> I see that Judy already provided a pointer for obtaining a java.net
> account. If you haven't already done that, you should. Once that's
> done, go here and request the "Observer" role for your account:
>
> https://socialsite.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectMembershipRequest
>
> The system should automatically approve your request. Once that's
> done, follow the directions at the top of this page (under "Accessing
> the source code repository"):
>
> https://socialsite.dev.java.net/source/browse/socialsite/
>
> --Jamey
>
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