In order to successfully build Slide, you will need to do the following. In the instructions below, $JAKARTA_HOME is assumed to be the directory into which you are installing all of the required distributions. The detailed dependency list is available in the next section.

• Download and install a version 1.3 or later (1.4 recommended) Java Development Kit implementation for your operating system platform. Set a "JAVA_HOME" environment variable to point at the directory where your JDK is installed, and add "$JAVA_HOME/bin" to your PATH.
• Download and install Ant 1.5.3 or later. Then define an environment variable named "ANT_HOME" and make it point to the path wher you just installed Ant.
• Download the source distribution of Slide (subpackage "jakarta-slide"), or check it out via anonymous CVS, into a subdirectory named "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-slide".
• Build Slide using :

          cd $JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-slide
          $ANT_HOME/bin/ant.sh    for Unix
          %ANT_HOME%\bin\ant      for Windows
        

  You can delete the generated files in the "build" and "dist" subdirectories by executing the following:

          cd $JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-slide
          $ANT_HOME/bin/ant.sh clean    for Unix
          %ANT_HOME%\bin\ant clean      for Windows
        

• A web application which can be used in any Servlet 2.3 compliant can be found $JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-slide/dist/webapp/slide.war.