Chapter 3. Building
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Chapter 3. Building

3.1. Prerequisites

3.1.1. Java Development Kit (JDK)

You must have one of the following JDKs installed in order to build the project:

  • Sun JDK 1.5.x

  • Sun JDK 1.6.x

Remember to ensure that "javac" and "java" are in your path (or symlinked).

JAVA_HOME=/location/to/javahome
export JAVA_HOME

PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH

3.1.2. Apache Ant

You must have Apache Ant 1.8.1+ installed on your system.

Remember to ensure that "ant" are in your path (or symlinked).

ANT_HOME=/location/to/anthome
export ANT_HOME

PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH

3.1.3. Apache Ivy

JBoss Tattletale uses Apache Ivy for dependency management. The build environment automatically bootstrap the installation of Apache Ivy.

3.1.4. Subversion

You must have Subversion 1.5+ installed on your system.

Remember to ensure that "svn" are in your path (or symlinked).

3.2. Obtaining the source code

3.2.1. Anonymous SVN access

The anonymous SVN repository is located under:

svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/tattletale/ tattletale-trunk

3.2.2. Developer SVN access

The developer SVN repository is located under:

svn co https://svn.jboss.org/repos/tattletale/trunk/ tattletale-trunk

3.2.3. SVN modules

We have the following modules for the project:

  • trunk

    The head of development targeting the next upcoming release.

3.3. Compiling the source code

In order to build the JBoss Tattletale project you execute:

ant <target>

where target is one of

  • dist

    Builds the distribution.

  • release

    Builds the release archives.

  • doc

    Builds the documentation for the project.

  • clean

    Cleans the project of temporary files.

See the full list of targets in the main build.xml file.

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