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Any thoughts on why? Thanks!

The step tha I forgot was:
Right click on your project and select Run As->Maven Clean, then Run As->Maven Package.

Thank you!!

Sounds to me like what you are really happy with is their installer/updater technology for packages and the fact that this is in common use across the platform’s developer toolsets. Does every tool you might want to use tie into this technology? (seems they should, but I am curious)

Windows has a plethora of installer technologies because they threw that market open to competition – there is there set of tools and then things like InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, WISE Installer, etc. etc. None were so clearly better than the others that they predominate and MS, for whatever reasons, did not lock-down this aspect of the platform to allow a single installation approach.

MS, in giving freedoms of choice, and because there is no predominant solution, has created a balkanized installation environment. This does require a bit more explanation if multiple installs are required from different locations using different installers. I can see where a common installation approach would be a great simplification.

My own experience with *NIX lately has (yet again) been that simple things I want to do prove irksome to do. Some of that is the nature of remotely accessing Solaris boxes via PuTTY with all of the attendant TTY annoyances. Some of it is using command line for everything and having to remember the particulars of syntax for find, grep, ls, chmod, cat, less, more, export, bash, tcsh, vi, etc. Part of the legacy of htere being ten ways to do most things in a *NIX environment is that there are ten variants on the syntax. And key behaviours in shells, in vi, etc. aren’t identical which can be quite annoying. And trying to do graphical debugging remotely using X-Windows Servers and Clients and DBX or the GNU debugger has been another unmitigated joy. Not remotely as capable for debugging as visual studio (at least, not with the ease of use and navigation of VS) as initially installed (which is more involved than remote debugging with MS VS, oddly).

The point I was trying to make is that when it comes to development tools, I can express the whole installation of a strong development platform on Ubuntu as a series of “apt-get install” lines, as opposed to sending links to various web sites with long and tedious notes on how to install and configure everything.

The Debian packaging, which is used in Ubuntu, is such a breeze to use that it makes the configuring of a platform fairly easy. It is still not fun, but what configuration activity is? However, it is simpler than anything else I have encountered.

Now that WUBI gives Ubuntu an easy installation path for Windows users, it might become more accessible for Windows developers to try an Ubuntu platform to develop some project. I hope you get a chance to try it out.

Good luck and thanks for your post.

What specific sorts of problems were you seeing in this context and with which tools?

I’ve found Linux to be quite a challenge for elderly folks, much like the user-friendlier Windows is. I’d like to find a Linux distro that had a simple desktop, supported simple email and web browsing tools and an MSOffice file format compatible office suite. That would be enough for the old folks.

For me, using Solaris again recently has reminded me of all the things I do not enjoy on *NIX as well as many of the powerful things that are easy to do there.

I may install Linux on one of my servers or as a small platform for development off to the side in a partition, but I can’t imagine giving up the experience day to day use of Windows gives. It’s not that it is a great OS, simply that it is an employable skill. Linux knowledge is as well, but this isn’t an either/or case, but you should know both.