Thats too bad about not being able to build GeoServer from sources.
The possibility that it's because I'm doing something stupid is ever
present 
Let me know if you have any problems.
Following the tutorial verbatim (but removing the text "ur file system"
from line 11 of pom.xml), mvn install gives me the following:
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
Downloading:
http://repository.codehaus.org//org/geoserver/community/1.4.0-M0/co
mmunity-1.4.0-M0.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository codehaus
(http://repository.cod
ehaus.org/)
Downloading:
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/geoserver/community/1.4.0-M0/comm
unity-1.4.0-M0.pom
[WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central
(http://repo1.maven.org
/maven2)
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] FATAL ERROR
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Failed to resolve artifact.
GroupId: org.geoserver
ArtifactId: community
Version: 1.4.0-M0
Reason: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
org.geoserver:community:pom:1.4.0-M0
from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
codehaus (http://repository.codehaus.org/)
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.reactor.MavenExecutionException: Cannot find parent:
org.geoser
ver:community for project: org.geoserver:hello:jar:1.0
at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:365)
at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:278)
at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115)
at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:256)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at
org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
at
org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: Cannot
find parent
: org.geoserver:community for project: org.geoserver:hello:jar:1.0
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(D
efaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1161)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildInternal(Def
aultMavenProjectBuilder.java:674)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.buildFromSourceFi
leInternal(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:416)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.build(DefaultMave
nProjectBuilder.java:192)
at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProject(DefaultMaven.java:515)
at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.collectProjects(DefaultMaven.java:447)
at
org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.getProjects(DefaultMaven.java:351)
... 11 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.project.ProjectBuildingException: POM
'org.geoserver
:community' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact
from any re
pository
org.geoserver:community:pom:1.4.0-M0
from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
codehaus (http://repository.codehaus.org/)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepo
sitory(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:513)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.assembleLineage(D
efaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:1157)
... 17 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.ArtifactNotFoundException:
Unable
to download the artifact from any repository
org.geoserver:community:pom:1.4.0-M0
from the specified remote repositories:
central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2),
codehaus (http://repository.codehaus.org/)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(De
faultArtifactResolver.java:136)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(De
faultArtifactResolver.java:63)
at
org.apache.maven.project.DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.findModelFromRepo
sitory(DefaultMavenProjectBuilder.java:467)
... 18 more
Caused by: org.apache.maven.wagon.ResourceDoesNotExistException: Unable
to downl
oad the artifact from any repository
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.manager.DefaultWagonManager.getArtifact(Def
aultWagonManager.java:260)
at
org.apache.maven.artifact.resolver.DefaultArtifactResolver.resolve(De
faultArtifactResolver.java:124)
... 20 more
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 3 seconds
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Mar 27 10:05:01 BST 2007
[INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Jerry.
-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Deoliveira [mailto:jdeolive@anonymised.com]
Sent: 26 March 2007 17:13
To: Swan Jerry
Cc: Geoserver-devel
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-devel] "A Simple Plugin" example possible
without Geoserver build?
Hi Jerry,
Thats too bad about not being able to build GeoServer from sources. From
your previous messages it seems that you are building the trunk sources.
The tutorial listed below works against the 1.5.x version of geoserver
and below and seems to be written against 1.4.x.
You should not need to build geoserver sources to run the tutorial. The
version ( 1.4.0-M0 ) of which the tutorial is written against is posted
is available in the maven repository ( specified in the pom in the
tutorial ). So all the geoserver binaries will be downloaded when you
compile your plugin.
Let me know if you have any problems.
-Justin
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