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Note: if you just want to try out Isis then there's no need to built it first; just use our quickstart maven archetype
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Introduction
As a contributor there are a couple of things you can do to check your build; either:
- use your locally-built archetype to generate a test app, and try out, or
- import one of the example applications directly
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Prereqs
The BuildProcess page explains how to build the Isis source code, the release project and also the archetype. Assuming you've done this.
You ALSO need to make sure that you've built the archetype module (using -Dmodules=support) and the release module (using -D modules=release).
Running the locally-built Archetype
Assuming you've completed the prereqs (see above), you can try generating a new application using:
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This should generate the 'quickstart' app. Full details on then using the generated app are on the Isis website.
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