Re: Newbie Help

Thanks,
  I've downloaded the docs and the tutorial, and I've started reading 
through them. However, I'm having a hard time understanding the build 
system and have some question concerning maven. Is maven a replacement 
for ANT ? and if it is, is it possible to use ANT instead of maven. Or 
have I just totally gotten it all wrong. I've read about different 
stages/life cycles and I think I have good understanding of that, it 
just getting things to build thats really killing me at the moment. I 
was discussing merlin with a friend who said merlin sound very much 
like a project called phoenix, but was unable to help since he had not 
working with it for quite sometime. I really want start coding with
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On Jul 9, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Idris B Saliu wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>   I just found out about merlin/avalon and very interested in using it 
> for me current project. However, I'm lost on how to go about learning 
> more about it. I've read through the documentation on the website, but 
> I've not really been able to get much out it. Are there any other 
> source for information on the project, like HOWTO and sample codes 
> which shows you step by step how to go about developing with 
> Avalon/Merlin. Any information would be really helpful, thanks in 
> advance.
>
> /idris
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> ps: I was trying to do the helloworld sample on the apache site was 
> unable to locate the maven command. I'm not sure my merlin package is 
> complete. Please help
>