Infinispan uses Maven as a build system.
Java 6.0 or above
Maven 3 or above
Make sure you follow the steps outlined in Maven Getting Started - Users to set up your JBoss repository correctly. This step is crucial to ensure your Maven setup can locate JBoss artifacts!
Maven places it's output in target/
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mvn clean |
Cleans out any old builds and binaries |
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mvn compile |
Compiles java source code |
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mvn test |
Runs the TestNG unit test suite on the compiled code. Will also compile the tests. See the testing section below for more information on running different test groups. The default test group run is the "unit" group. |
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mvn package |
Packages the module as a JAR file, the resulting JAR file will be in target/ |
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mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip.exec=true |
Creates a JAR file without running tests |
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mvn package -Dmaven.test.skip.exec=true -P minimal-distribution |
Creates a reduced version of the distribution with all modules,scripts...etc but no javadoc or source code. This is very handy to quickly build the distribution in order to run some tests. |
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mvn install -Dmaven.test.skip.exec=true |
Installs the artifacts in your local repo for use by other projects/modules, including inter-module dependencies within the same project. |
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mvn install -P distribution |
In addition to install, will also use Maven's assembly plugin to build ZIP files for distribution (in target/distribution). Contents of various distribution are controlled by the files in src/main/resources/assemblies. |
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mvn deploy |
Builds and deploy the project to the JBoss snapshots repository. |
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mvn -Pgenerate-schema-doc install -DskipTests=true -pl core && firefox core/target/xsd_doc |
Builds the configuration reference HTML file |
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mvn install -P-extras |
Avoids the extras profile disables the enforce plugin, generation of source jars and OSGI bundleconstruction, hence making builds run faster. Clearly, this option should not be used when making a release or publishing a snapshot. |
For non-snapshot releases (e.g., alphas, betas, release candidates and final releases) you should use the bin/release.py script.
To be able to publish releases to Maven, you need to have the following in your ${HOME}/.m2/settings.xml file:
<settings> ... <servers> ... <server> <id>jboss-snapshots-repository</id> <username>your JBoss.org username</username> <password>your JBoss.org password</password> </server> <server> <id>jboss-releases-repository</id> <username>your JBoss.org username</username> <password>your JBoss.org password</password> </server> ... </servers> ... </settings>
Simply running
$ mvn clean deploy -Dmaven.test.skip.exec=true
in the Infinispan root directory will deploy a snapshot.
Use the bin/release.py script.
Infinispan currently has 2 separate Maven archetypes you can use to create a skeleton project and get started using Infinispan. This is an easy way to get started using Infinispan as the archetype generates sample code, a sample Maven pom.xml with necessary depedencies, etc.
You don't need to have any experience with or knowledge of Maven's Archetypes to use this! Just follow the simple steps below.
These archetypes have only been tested with Maven 3. Please report back if you have any success with using Maven 2.
Use the newproject-archetype project. The simple command below will get you started, and
$ mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.infinispan.archetypes \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=newproject-archetype \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.5 \ -DarchetypeRepository=http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public
You will be prompted for a few things, including the artifactId , groupId and version of your new project. And that's it - you're ready to go!
The skeleton project ships with a sample application class for interacting with Infinispan. You can open this new project in your IDE - most good IDEs such as IntelliJ and Eclipse allow you to import Maven projects, see this guide and this guide. Once you open your project in your IDE, you should examine the generated classes and read through the comments.
Try running
$ mvn install -Prun
in your newly generated project. This runs the main() method in the generated application class.
This archetype is useful if you wish to contribute a test to the Infinispan project and helps you get set up to use Infinispan's testing harness and related tools.
Use
$ mvn archetype:generate \ -DarchetypeGroupId=org.infinispan.archetypes \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=testcase-archetype \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.0.5 \ -DarchetypeRepository=http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public
As above, this will prompt you for project details and again as above, you should open this project in your IDE. Once you have done so, you will see some sample tests written for Infinispan making use of Infinispan's test harness and testing tools along with extensive comments and links for further reading.
Try running
$ mvn test
in your newly generated project to run your tests.
The generated project has a few different profiles you can use as well, using Maven's -P flag. For example:
$ mvn test -Pudp
The profiles available in the generated sample project are:
udp: use UDP for network communications rather than TCP
tcp: use TCP for network communications rather than UDP
jbosstm: Use the embedded JBoss Transaction Manager rather than Infinispan's dummy test transaction manager
If you have written a functional, unit or stress test for Infinispan and want to contribute this back to Infinispan, your best bet is to fork the Infinispan sources on GitHub. The test you would have prototyped and tested in an isolated project created using this archetype can be simply dropped in to Infinispan's test suite. Make your changes, add your test, prove that it fails even on Infinispan's upstream source tree and issue a pull request.
{tip:title=New to working with Infinispan and GitHub?
Want to know how best to work with the repositories and contribute code? Read Infinispan and Git
The archetypes generate poms with dependencies to specific versions of Infinispan. You should edit these generated poms by hand to point to other versions of Infinispan that you are interested in.
The source code used to generate these archetypes are on GitHub. If you wish to enhance and contribute back to the project, fork away!