Building with Maven
RestyGWT uses Maven as its primary build tool for performing releases and uses the pom.xml to describe dependencies between modules.
Prequisites
Required:
- Java 1.6
- Download and install Maven
- Get the latest source
Maven options
To build restygwt maven has to be configured to use more memory
set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m
A normal build
mvn install -P run-its
The last argument, -P run-its, is optional and is just used to run an extra set of integration tests.
Once the build completes, you will find the RestyGWT
binaries located in the restygwt/target directory.
Doing a Quick Build
The following avoids running all the unit test cases, we just skip the test running phase and not the building part
mvn -Dtest=false clean install
Using an IDE
If you prefer to use an IDE then you can auto-generate the IDE’s project files using maven plugins. e.g.
mvn eclipse:eclipse
or
mvn idea:idea
Importing into Eclipse
If you have not already done so, you will need to make Eclipse aware of
the Maven repository so that it can build everything. In the preferences,
go to Java -> Build Path -> Classpath and define a new Classpath
Variable named M2_REPO that points to your local Maven repository. i.e.
~/.m2/repository on Unix and c:\Documents and Settings\$username\.m2\repository
on Windows).
You can also get Maven to do this for you:
mvn eclipse:add-maven-repo -Declipse.workspace=/path/to/the/workspace/