Building the Framework

Yesterday, we attempted to build the framework and include it in the web service project. We were able to get the .jar file just fine, but the web service would not deploy correctly. After hours of confusion, we gave up for the night. Today, we had a thought: perhaps the dependencies for the framework were not being accurately compiled into the .jar file. Upon further investigation, we found that this was indeed the case. It turns out Maven does not build the dependencies into the .jar by default. Some web research determined that there is a plugin that makes it easy for Maven2 to build the dependencies into the .jar. We found the link referenced here.