| frustrated [message #605763] |
Tue, 08 March 2005 17:33 |
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Originally posted by: roniko.amdocsREMOVE_THIS.com
it's amazing to me how many hours are wasted by me and i am sure many others
trying to hack/guess how to extend VE.
i've read all the documents and looked at all the examples - always ending
up hitting some wall.
perhaps a 1000 monkeys hitting 1000 keyboard randomly could extend VE
successfully after a 1000 years...
but what chance does a single monkey (e.g. me) have in modifying randomly
bits and pieces of xml/xmi/java/properties/god knows what else?
it's amazing that i cannot find a single example of extending VE that has a
minimum documentation that tells you
how to install and deploy it. VE has no documentation. i can't tell how to
use the examples... others documents are either outdated or apply to some
ibm eclipse-like environment which may have most of the information workable
in eclipse, but enough is not that you'll never get it going (e.g. the wizzo
gadgets example)
it's amazing that VE is a tool that should help you get the job done quickly
but you spend most of your time trying
to look at code and bits of distributed properties and guess what to do, and
eventually find out that all the time you investigated
in it was just a waste of time.
my guess is that the reason i can't find any documented example on the web
is because no one has been able to produce one!
it's a puzzle that only a small group at ibm understands... the rest of us
just ask questions and eventually give up.
i see lots of questions but the answers are basically "there is a clue
there... and another clue there... the rest... well, try to figure out
by trying".
this is very frustrating. are we dealing with computer science here? seems
almost like alchemy...
perhaps someone at ibm could take the time and write a tiny documented
example on how to extend VE.
just one complete and documented example, the way only ibm can do so well,
could replace most of this newsgroup.
thanks
rk
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