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Prerequisites

Unless otherwise mentioned, You must use J2SE 1.4.x... NOT 1.5. The build should fail early if you are using the wrong JDK.

MS Windows Tip

Windows users are strongly encouraged to change the M2 local repository (the place where dependencies are downloaded) to a shorter path with no spaces, e.g. C:\.m2.

Using a longer path may cause the build (and Geronimo itself) to behave very strangely when it hits the 260 char limit for filenames on Windows.

In order to change the m2 local repository go to %USERPROFILE%/.m2 and edit/create settings.xml file to contain the following content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings>
  <localRepository>C:\.m2</localRepository>
</settings>

Checkout Geronimo

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/server/trunk server

MS Windows Tip

Windows users are strongly encouraged to checkout Geronimo into c:\g.

Using a longer path may cause the build (and Geronimo itself) to behave very strangely when it hits the 260 char limit for filenames on Windows.


Advanced users may proceed to For the Advanced Users

Preparing to build for the first time

If you are building for the first time, a little patience is required. The specs have recently been changed and now require Java 1.5 to compile them. The remainder of Geronimo should still be compiled with Java 1.4 (OpenEJB still requires it). Because of this, you will need to follow the step-by-step instructions in order to do the build.

External Dependencies

You will need Ant installed and available in the search path of your shell. You will also need the Subversion svn client installed and on your path.

Chances are you will need to increase the heap size for Maven. Add the following lines to ~/.mavenrc:

# Increase the heap and max permission size for Maven
MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m

If you are using the SUN JDK, you may also need to increase the maximum permanent size as well as the heap:

# Increase the heap and max permanent size for Maven
MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m

Windows Tip

Windows users should create mavenrc_pre.bat under c:\documents and settings\<username>\mavenrc_pre.bat or c:\mavenrc_pre.bat depending on how the %HOME% property is set on your system.

Variables will need to use the batch set syntax:

set <VARIABLE>=<VALUE>

Bootstrapping Step-By-Step

You can run the steps one by one (skipping steps as desired once you are familiar with the build):

  1. bootstrap clean
  2. bootstrap specs
  3. bootstrap modules
  4. bootstrap openejb2
  5. bootstrap assemble

Distribution binaries

The binaries for distribution can be found in the *.zip and *.tar.gz formats in following places

  • server/assembles/geronimo-jetty-j2ee/target
  • server/assembles/geronimo-tomcat-j2ee/target
  • server/assembles/geronimo-jetty-minimal/target
  • server/assembles/geronimo-tomcat-minimal/target

Testing the assembly

To test an assembly, unpack and startup, as in:

gunzip -c assemblies/geronimo-jetty-j2ee/target/geronimo-jetty-j2ee*-bin.tar.gz | tar xf -
./geronimo-jetty-j2ee*/bin/startup.sh

And then shutdown:

./geronimo-jetty-j2ee*/bin/shutdown.sh

Or, use the geronimo-maven-plugin to start the server:

mvn -Ptools geronimo:start

Windows Tip

Windows users may need to specify an alternative installDirectory to avoid long path problems:

mvn -Ptools geronimo:start -DinstallDirectory=c:\g

And to stop, either CTRL-C or from a separate terminal:

mvn -Ptools geronimo:stop

In order to run with the simple geronimo prefix, you need to add a pluginGroup for org.apache.geronimo.plugins to your ~/.m2/settings.xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<settings>
    <pluginGroups>
        <pluginGroup>org.apache.geronimo.plugins</pluginGroup>
    </pluginGroups>
</settings>

Windows Tip

Windows users will find ~/.m2/ under c:\documents and settings\<username>\.m2.

If you don't want to add this to your local settings you can still enable the tools profile, which will register the prefixes.

For the Advanced Users

Please be sure to have read the details above and configured your environment accordingly before following these instructions.

Installing Ant is not necessary. Checkout specs and openejb2 using:

svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/specs/trunk specs
svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/openejb/trunk/openejb2 openejb2

Building specs

cd specs
mvn clean install

Building Geronimo with openejb2

Add a profile to the top level pom.xml like this:

<profile>
    <id>build-all</id>

    <activation>
        <property>
            <name>all</name>
        </property>
    </activation>

    <modules>
        <module>testsupport</module>
        <module>modules</module>
        <module>maven-plugins</module>
        <module>applications</module>
        <module>openejb2</module>
        <module>configs</module>
        <module>assemblies</module>
    </modules>
</profile>

Build geronimo and openejb2 from the top directory using:

 
mvn -Dall clean install

or:

 
mvn -Dall

Other Useful commands

To prepare Geronimo for IDEA:

mvn idea:idea

To prepare Geronimo for Eclipse, i.e to create .classpath and .project files

mvn eclipse:eclipse

What is Genesis?

Please see Genesis Overview for more information about Genesis.

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