JetSpeed Installation Directions

Requirements:

• A Java Servlet Engine/Container. Must be compatible with the Servlet 2.1 API Note that JetSpeed is developed under Jakarta (http://jakarta.apache.org) so this is the most desirable platform.
• JDK 1.1.8 or compatible Java Virtual Machine.
• Netscape Navigator 4.x or Internet Explorer 4.x
• The following packages are required and distributed with JetSpeed
1. Exoffice Castor 0.7.4 (http://castor.exolab.org) this is stored in ./list.
2. Latest version of Apache Turbine (from CVS) or the snapshot that comes with JetSpeed in ./lib
3. Apache Xerces 1.0.1 (http://xml.apache.org)
• The following Java packages are required and cannot ship with JetSpeed due to licensing problems:
1. JavaMail (SUN Community License). Provides IMAP and SMTP support.
2. Java Activation Framework (SUN Community License)
• The following Java packages are optional and cannot ship with JetSpeed due to licensing problems:
1. DOG NNTP JavaMail provider (MPL). Required if you want NNTP (newsgroups) support.
2. DOG POP3 JavaMail provider (MPL). Required if you want POP3 support.
3. SUN Servlet API (javax.servlet) (SUN Community License). If you want to compile your own classes. Should normally be provided by your servlet engine once compiled.

Installation:

Since JetSpeed is 100% Java there is no need to compile. All bytecode should run on any platform that supports JDK 1.2.

Move the "content" directory to "/content" under your web server. If you already have a "content" directory simply add the files there.

Add ./bin/JetSpeed.jar to your classpath. This contains all classes from JetSpeed. The full URL should be: "http://localhost/servlet/org.apache.jetspeed.Home".

Add the property "properties" to point to the JetSpeed the file "./src/config/TurbineResources.properties" that ships with the JetSpeed distribution. This can be done by setting an init parameter in your Servlet Engine (under Jakarta this is defined in WEB-INF/web.xml).

Within TurbineResources.properties change the line "jetspeed.properties" to point to the "JetSpeedResources.properties" file that comes with JetSpeed.

Possibly restart your servlet engine.

Bring up a 4.0 browser and point it to http://localhost:<SERVLET_PORT>/<SERVLET_ROOT>/org.apache.jetspeed.Home.

Release Notes

There may be a known problem with your specific version of JetSpeed. Please see the release notes.