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   Timo R. on September 21, 2015 at 2:00 am

   Regarding “learning spring boot”:
   – Creating a functional environment is one of the hardest things in software development. Unfortunately you have not started with this topic in your book. Yes, I understand that it gets old the fastest, but on the other hand some of your readers will be in the dilemma where I am: Your code doesn’t work and I don’t know how to fix the dev environment to get it working.
   – A bit same is with utilizing source code, preferably through a fork in GitHub: Especially Eclipse is frustrating in that it has several different mechanisms how to do it, some of them don’t work at all, some are counter-intuitive and some require correct plugins to work. I probably know that part already, but you could really afford to have one section of these basics and tell one of the good ways to do it.
   – Also when ever I read a development book, I ALWAYS do it the same way: I either copy-paste or use from the sources the correct place and compile it. And only if that works, I start to read the content: what does it do & how was it created the way it was. But you work the other way around: you approach the content first and getting it compiled is very much secondary. When the person has struggles with the environment or compilation, your approach is frustrating as ….

   I don’t know how many attempt I am doing now and none of them have worked but they have had different issues. I have followed different instructions around the web to create them, but so far I have always found instructions that were either too old, too short (didn’t explain far enough for getting everything to work) or whatever.
   I have tried five versions of IDE:
   – Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 9 beta (Eclipse)
   – Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 (Eclipse)
   – Eclipse Mars
   – Eclipse Luna
   – Groovy/Grail Tool Suite (Eclipse)
   Several AS:
   – Tomcat 8
   – Tomcat 7
   – Wildfly 8.2
   – Wildfly some other version
   – Jetty
   Other:
   – Gradle 2.4 and 2.7
   – Maven 1?, Maven 2, Maven 3?
   – Lots of settings

   As you can guess quantity doesn’t improve quality, but I don’t want to spend days on an issue, so if I don’t solve it fast enough, I try something else.

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     Greg Turnquist on September 23, 2015 at 12:19 pm

     I captured your issue regarding Learning Spring Boot’s code at https://github.com/learning-spring-boot/learning-spring-boot-code/issues/1

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