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 1.1 or later 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 "$JAVA_HOME/bin" to your PATH.
	Download and install Ant 1.3 or later. Then define an environment variable named "ANT_HOME" and make it point to the path wher you just installed Ant.
	Download the source distribution of Slide (subpackage "jakarta-slide"), or check it out via anonymous CVS, into a subdirectory named "$JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-slide".
	Download the libraries needed to compile Slide, and either put the appropriate JARs in the "lib" subdirectory of your Ant distribution, or in the "lib" subdirectory of the Slide source distribution. The Slide Ant makefile will attempt to find and copy the JARs required at runtime. If the JARs are not located in their default location, you should create a "build.properties" file based on the "build.properties.sample" file present in the root of the Slide source repository.
	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 2.2 compliant can be found $JAKARTA_HOME/jakarta-slide/dist/webapp/slide.war.

Slide has dependencies to some external function libraries. Some of these dependencies are both compile-time and runtime dependencies, while some are only runtime dependencies. Some build options also require additional external libraries.

Slide depends on the following software libraries at build time :

	Jakarta Ant 1.2 or later
	Sun JAXP 1.0 or later (JAXP 1.1ea2 recommended)
	DOM level 2 API (org.w3c.dom package)
	SAX 2 API (org.xml.* packages)
	Sun Servlet API 2.2
	Sun Java Transaction API 1.0
	Sun Servlet API 2.2
	JDOM 1.0
	JDK 1.1 or later

Slide depends on the following software libraries at run time :

	Sun JAXP 1.0 or later (JAXP 1.1ea2 recommended)
	A JAXP-compliant XML parser (DOM level 2 support recommended)
	Sun Servlet API 2.2 or later
	Sun Java Transaction API 1.0
	JDOM 1.0 (optional)
	JRE 1.1 or later (1.3 recommended)

As said above, the requirements for the various build options can vary. Some might require :

	Tomcat 4.0
	Ant optional package
	An Ant supported XSLT processor (Xalan or XSL:P)
	A JMX MBean server, and the JMX libraries
	JUnit 3.5

If you want to build an application which uses the Slide API, just add the slide.jar to your classpath. Then, be sure to put the domain configuration file in the appropriate directory. By default, it is a file called "Domain.xml" placed in the directory from which the JVM is started.

The WebDAV servlet requires a servlet container which supports at least the 2.2 API. The easiest solution is to use the web application archive which is included in the slide distribution (webapp/slide.war) and deploy it in your servlet container. The WAR file contains a "Domain.xml" file which should be modified to configure the domain.