Building YAJUL from sources

build-from-source YAJUL uses Maven2 as a build tool, so the first step is to Download and install Maven2 . For Maven2 to work properly from the command line, the shell environment needs the following:

  • JAVA_HOME should point to a valid JDK.
  • M2_HOME should point to your Maven2 install.
  • PATH should include M2_HOME/bin and JAVA_HOME/bin

    There are a few Java Enterprise API jars that are not currently available in the Maven repositories, so these need to be installed in the developers local respository before YAJUL will compile successfully with Maven2. The jars are located in the 'lib' directory, and you can install them into the local Maven repository using the 'install:install-file' goal:

    mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=javax.jms -DartifactId=jms -Dversion=1.1 /
 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=./lib/javax.jms.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=javax.transaction -DartifactId=jta -Dversion=1.0.1B /
 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=./lib/jta.jar

    These are some of the more frequently used Maven goals:

  • compile
  • test
  • package
  • clean
  • source:jar
  • site

    To build everything from scratch, run:

    mvn clean package source:jar site

Using IDEA to develop YAJUL

YAJUL comes with a .ipr project that will have everything set up for building and testing the YAJUL code. Simply check out the codebase with SVN and open up the .ipr file with IDEA 7.

Editing the YAJUL site

Maven generates a project website from files in the 'src/site' directory. The files in the 'src/site/apt' directory are in the APT format , which is a bit like wiki text. These can be edited with any text editor.