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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. $Id$ ============================================= Building The Tomcat 5.5 Servlet/JSP Container ============================================= This subproject contains the source code for Tomcat 5.5, a container that implements the Servlet 2.4 and JSP 2.0 specifications from the Java Community Process . In order to build a binary distribution version of the container from a source distribution, do the following: (0) Download and Install a Java Development Kit * If the JDK is already installed, skip to (1). * Download a Java Development Kit (JDK) release (version 1.4.x or later) from: http://java.sun.com/j2se/ * Install the JDK according to the instructions included with the release. * Set an environment variable JAVA_HOME to the pathname of the directory into which you installed the JDK release. (1) Install Apache Ant 1.5.x on your computer * If Apache Ant 1.5.x is already installed on your computer, skip to (2). * Download a binary distribution of Ant 1.5.x from: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi * Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the Ant release resides in its own directory (conventionally named "apache-ant-[version]"). For the purposes of the remainder of this document, the symbolic name "${ant.home}" is used to refer to the full pathname of the release directory. * Create an ANT_HOME environment variable to point the directory ${ant.home}. * Modify the PATH environment variable to include the directory ${ant.home}/bin in its list. This makes the "ant" command line script available, which will be used to actually perform the build. (2) Install Subversion 1.3.x on your computer * If Subversion 1.3.x is already installed on your computer, skip to (3). * Download a binary distribution of Subversion 1.3.x from: http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html * Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the Subversion release resides in its own directory. * Modify the PATH environment variable to include the directory ${svn.home}/bin in its list, where "${svn.home}" is the full pathname of the subversion release directory. This makes the "svn" command available, which will be used to checkout the tomcat sources. * NOTE: If you're running behind a proxy server, the SVN checkout of Tomcat source code may fail. See http://subversion.tigris.org/faq.html#proxy for ways to work around this. (3) Building Tomcat 5.5 (3.1) Download main build script and build binary distribution * Download the main build.xml script from: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/build.xml * Create a new directory, and copy the newly download build.xml to it. This directory will be referred to as the ${tomcat.source} directory in the rest of this document (3.2) Building * Go to that directory, and do: cd ${tomcat.source} ant * NOTE: Users accessing the Internet through a proxy must use a properties file to indicate to Ant the proxy configuration. Read below. * WARNING: Running this command will checkout the Tomcat 5 sources from the Apache source code repository, as well as download binaries to the /usr/share/java directory. Make sure this is appropriate to do on your computer. On Windows, this usually corresponds to the "C:\usr\share\java" directory, unless Cygwin is used. Read below to customize the directory used to download the binaries. * The build can be controlled by creating a ${tomcat.source}/build.properties file, and adding the following content to it: # ----- Proxy setup ----- # Uncomment if using a proxy server #proxy.host=proxy.domain #proxy.port=8080 #proxy.use=on # ----- Default Base Path for Dependent Packages ----- # Replace this path with the directory path where dependencies binaries # should be downloaded base.path=/usr/share/java (4) Updating sources It is recommended that you regularly update the downloaded Tomcat 5 sources. To do this, execute the following commands: cd ${tomcat.source} ant checkout (5) Rebuilds For a quick rebuild of only modified code you can use cd ${tomcat.source} ant build In addition, "ant build-depends" will build packages that tomcat depends on ( commons-logging for now ), to ease fixes and debuging in those packages. (6) Building The "compat" Package Tomcat 5.5 is designed to run on J2SE 5.0, but will run on J2SE versions 1.3 and 1.4 as well as long as the compatability package is placed in the server classpath. See "RUNNING.txt" in this directory for running instructions. To build the compat package, do cd ${tomcat.source} ant build-compat (7) Building the servlet and jsp API documentation The documentation can be easly rebuild, do cd ${tomcat.source}/build ant dist-javadoc (8) Building a release running tests: do cd ${tomcat.source}/build ant release