Building Synapse from Source The Synapse source code is available at http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/synapse/trunk/java To build Synapse, you will need JDK 1.5.x., Maven 2.0.6 The Synapse JARs could be built with Maven 2 as follows: mvn clean install To build the Synapse distributions, first build the jars using the above and then use the following: mvn assembly:assembly -Drelease -Dmaven.test.skip This will build the source and binary distributions in the target folder created. To build the site, use: mvn site