Installation of maven

This explanation is for an Ubuntu 7.10 environment. If you use another distribution or version, some commands may slightly differ.

• First download the maven binaries

wget http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.0.8-bin.tar.gz

• Extract them to e.g /usr/local

sudo tar xfvj apache-maven-2.0.8-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local

• Then adept some environment variables in you preferred terminal. For the bash for example, edit ~/.bashrc

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1224m -Xms712m"
export PATH=$PATH:<path_to_maven_install_dir>/bin

• Now try running maven with this command

mvn

• If the previous step was successful, point your browser to http://escidoc1.escidoc.mpg.de:8888/archiva and create an account.

If you want to contribute snapshot builds and releases to the project contact your local archiva administrator to grant you the needed rights.

• Create a file at ~/.m2/settings.xml with the following entries

<settings>
  <profiles>
  <profile>
          <id>mysettings</id>
           <properties>
                <!-- here you can set and override systemwide properties, valid in all projects -->
            </properties>
    </profile>
  </profiles>
   <activeProfiles>
     <!-- using a development environment -->
     <activeProfile>env-development</activeProfile>
     <!-- and jboss 4.0 -->
     <activeProfile>jboss42</activeProfile>
     <activeProfile>mysettings</activeProfile>
   </activeProfiles>
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <id>archiva.default</id>
      <url>http://escidoc1.escidoc.mpg.de:8888/archiva/repository/internal/</url>
      <mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>
  <servers>
      <server>
        <id>deployment.webdav</id>
        <username>archiva_username</username>
        <password>archiva_password</password>
      </server>
      <server>
        <id>snapshots.webdav</id>
        <username>archiva_username</username>
        <password>archiva_password</password>
      </server>
    </servers>
</settings>

• Checkout the project, e.g common_services

svn co https://zim02.gwdg.de/repos/common/trunk/common_services/

You can now start developing. For the first try, why not trying to compile all the project modules? Go to the root of the working dir and type:

mvn clean compile

This should clean and compile all project modules.