To build with maven 2.x (http://maven.apache.org/): mvn install The jars will be compiled and installed in your local Maven repository To build with ant (http://ant.apache.org/): # run a basic build ant -f build/build.xml # run test tests ant -f build/build.xml test # perform a complete build, jars and javadocs will be copied to 'dist' folder ant -f build/build.xml dist # produce a distributable zip ant -f build/build.xml zip # clean ant -f build/build.xml clean # delete downloaded dependencies ant -f build/build.xml clean-downloads Note: To build with XML Security support, set the ABDERA_XMLSECURITY environment variable to "yes" prior to running the ant build. To build with Spring support, set the ABDERA_SPRING environment variable to "yes" prior to running the build To build with Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org). There are two methods depending on whether or not you're comfortable with Maven With Maven: Check out java/trunk, and from java/trunk run "mvn eclipse:eclipse". Then import each project. If you have the SVN checkout as a project in Maven, you'll need an Eclipse 3.2 to import these projects without an error regarding "overlapping projects'. The alternative is to run "mvn -Declipse.workspace=/path/to/workspace eclipse:eclipse", which will set up a project where the source files are linked to the actual location. You'll also need to have a buid path variable for "M2_REPO" defined to match your local repository (~/.m2/repository). You can do this manually, or by running "mvn -Declipse.workspace= eclipse:add-maven-repo" Without Maven: From within eclipse, check out each of the following as projects. Do not worry about the project type for now: * /java/trunk/build project name: build * /java/trunk/core project name: core * /java/trunk/dependencies project name: dependencies * /java/trunk/docs project name: docs * /java/trunk/examples project name: examples * /java/trunk/parser project name: parser * /java/trunk/server project name: server * /java/trunk/security project name: security * /java/trunk/spring project name: spring * /java/trunk/extensions project name: eclipse From the eclipse workspace root, invoke: ant -f build/build.xml init Then, from the eclipse workspace root, invoke ant -f snell_sandbox/eclipse/setupeclipse.xml This will copy all of the necessary eclipse project files over to the appropriate projects in the eclipse workspace. Restart your eclipse workbench and all of your projects should be ready to go. Note: the security module will contain compile errors due to missing XML Security jars. To build and use that module, you'll need to download the Apache XML Security and the Bouncy Castle Crypto implementation.