Building -------- You need Maven2 (at least 2.0.6) and Java 5 to build Tobago. In the main directory you can use mvn install to run the install target on all sub projects. This will put all necessary artifacts into your local repository. Building All ----------- For building all the stuff you can use the profile all-modules mvn install -Pall-modules Demo ---- To deploy the demo on your local Tomcat 5.5 create a ~/.m2/settings.xml file based on settings-example.xml. Make sure the manager user has the role manager; see /conf/tomcat-users.xml. mvn tomcat:deploy or mvn tomcat:undeploy tomcat:deploy Alternatively, you can run mvn package and deploy the WAR from the target directory manually. It will create a log file in the app-server starting folder. You may want to change that in the src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/log4j.xml