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Build MyFaces Core from source code using Maven
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Myfaces is built using the Maven software project management tool. Follow these instructions to build Myfaces from source on your machine. If you just want a binary distribution, one can be downloaded from
http://myfaces.apache.org/download.html.
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Prerequisites
To build Myfaces,
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you'll
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need
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the
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software
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listed
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below
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installed
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on
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your
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machine.
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- JDK
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- 1.6
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- Maven
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- '''2.2.1
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- (or
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- later)'''
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- with
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- the
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- bin
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- directory
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- in
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- your
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- path.
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- Make
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- sure
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- to
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- set
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- JAVA_HOME
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- as
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- an
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- environment
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- variable.
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- Subversion
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- client
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- for
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- your
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- build
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- environment
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Running
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a
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Myfaces
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build
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- You may need to run the 'mvn'
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- command
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- multiple
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- times
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- when
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- you're
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- first
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- starting
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- out,
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- as
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- it
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- downloads
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- plugins
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- and
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- the
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- download
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- process
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- does
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- not
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- seem
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- to
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- be
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- entirely
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- reliable.
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- Use
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- the
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- setting
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- -Dmaven.test.skip=true
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- if
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- you
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- don't
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- want
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- tests
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- to
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- run.
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- Use
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- the
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- setting
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- -Dmaven.test.failure.ignore=true
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- if
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- you
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- don't
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- want
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- the
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- build
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- to
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- stop
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- if
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- a
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- test
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- fails
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The
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output
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will
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be
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put
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in
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the
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"target"
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folder
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of
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every
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subproject.
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Building
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the
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documentation
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To
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build
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the
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documentation
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site,
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execute:
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The documentation will be put in the target/site
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folder
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of
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every
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subproject.
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For
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Tomahawk
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only
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Currently
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the
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Tomahawk
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build
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FAILS
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with
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maven
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>
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2.0.9
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due
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to
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the
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incompatibility
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of
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a
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required
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plugin.
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In
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most
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cases,
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it
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is
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best
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to
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build
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all
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the
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Tomahawk
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modules:
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If you really want to build just Tomahawk core then you will need to manually add the apache snapshot repository to your settings file. The problem is that each tomahawk
submodule needs access to its parent pom. That is no problem if the parent pom is in the parent directory (which happens if you check out the whole of tomahawk rather
than just the core module). Otherwise maven can also retrieve it from the apache snapshot repository - except that the definition for the apache snapshot repository
location is in an ancestor pom that is referenced only from the parent pom!
To enable the apache snapshot repostory, edit file ~/.m2/settings.xml
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and
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add
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the
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following:
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IDE support
See Building_MyFaces_in_your_IDE
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.
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