experiences in starting with KEEL...

hi mike,

(thanks for the fast reply on how to make a WAR!: ant war....)

another hints from my experience in starting with keel:
- the version one can download at sourceforge is not in
sync with handbook. even the first "ant" for creating a new project
isn't working. would be good if a new snapshot would be upload...

- the version from CVS (22.09.) could not download tomcat 5.0.27 because its no longer present, keel-build/ant.properties must be corrected to version 5.0.28, then everything works fine:

tomcat.install=true
tomcat.version=5.0.28
tomcat.name=jakarta-tomcat-${tomcat.version}
tomcat.path=${tool.deploy.dir}/${tomcat.name}
tomcat.dlsrc=http://apache.mirrors.pair.com/jakarta/tomcat-5/v${tomcat.version}/bin/jakarta-tomcat-${tomcat.version}.zip


- handbook suggestions:
-- would love to have a chapter describing howto set up keel
with preinstalled userbased tomcat (using CATALINA_BASE)
(I develop with central tomcat under /opt/tomcat5 and a user
based configuration under CATALINA_BASE, so that I can use userbased Eclipse with tomcat-plugin. would like to have one central keel with every developer using his own tomcat and keel_proj...
it's not comfortabel under linux to develop in usermode and having to switch to root-mode to deploy ant start tomcat...)

-- hint for handbook: 
ant tomcat-start eventually starts the wrong tomcat if there is
a CATALINA_HOME environment variable pointing to another (before keel used) tomcat, had to wipe it out, so that deployed hoj-application under "deploy"-tomcat could be accessed

-- is it possible to use a previous installed userbased tomcat (CATALINA_BASE), not residing under "deploy"-dir?

-- handbook-typo:
chapter 1.5.1.1:
...Create the package org.javamug.hoj.models
must be
...Create the package org.javamug.apphoj.models

I hope these are not too much questions at once...
ralf