Building Apache Commons VFS To build Apache Commons VFS, you need a JDK implementation version 1.7 or greater, and Apache Maven 3. To perform the license release audit, a.k.a. "RAT check", run: mvn apache-rat:check To perform a Clirr check, run: mvn clirr:check -pl commons-vfs2 To build the site with Java 7, make sure you give Maven enough memory using MAVEN_OPTS with options appropriate for your JVM. Alternatively, you can build with Java 8 and not deal with MAVEN_OPTS. To build the site, from a command line, run: mvn clean install mvn site mvn site:stage To test, run: mvn test Then, to test OSGi, you must first create the jars: mvn install -DskipTests mvn package -DskipTests Next, you can run the tests as usual, which will pick up the jar files to use as OSGi bundles from the various target directories: mvn test