Apache Excalibur ================ Welcome to Apache Excalibur! For more information, please see the website at http://excalibur.apache.org/ To build everything from scratch, you will need Maven (http://maven.apache.org) and simply run the command; maven multiproject:install You will need to add the following to your list of remote repositories in your Maven build.properties in your home directory: maven.repo.remote=http://ibiblio.org/maven,http://www.apache.org/dist/java-repository,http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/excalibur/repository You might need to download and install a few jars by hand, in particular, the following: jsse-1.0.3_03 (groupid: jsse) Logkit and Excalibur-Logger use the geronimo-spec JMS and JavaMail jars for building and testing. For production use, developers should download the JMS and JavaMail dependencies from Sun.