Overview

Commons Chain uses Maven or Ant as a build system.

Maven Goals

To build a jar file, change into Chain's root directory and run maven jar. The result will be in the "target" subdirectory.

To build the Javadocs, run maven javadoc. The result will be in "target/docs/apidocs".

To build the full website, run maven site. The result will be in "target/docs".

Further details can be found in the commons build instructions.

Changelog Report

The default configuration for the Changelog Report is to show changes within the last year. If however you wish to see changes since a specified date you can override the configuration by adding a build.properties file to the Commons Chain directory. For example to show all the changes since the Chain 1.0 release, you would have the following in the build.properties: 


  

    

      Unfortunately, an issue with Subversion imports means that this report will only pick
      up changes since the last import - which in the case of the ASF repository was December 2005.
      If you require the changelog report to show changes prior to December 2005 for Commons Chain
      then you can use the workaround described
      here.
    

  

  
Building With JDK 1.3

    

      Commons Chain can be built using JDK 1.3 - however you will need to modify the
      project.xml to add an additional dependency for xml apis:
    

    

    

  

  


Ant Goals

  

    To build a jar file and the javadocs, change into Chain's root directory
    and run ant dist.
    The result will be in the "dist" subdirectory.