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Maven can be used as the build system for your project. It automates most of the low-level details of dependencies and building for Java projects. For instance, it can automatically download external JARs required by your project. The org.lcsim project uses this tool for its build system, as well.
Basic Setup
Directory Setup
Create a directory for your project and go into it.
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mkdir myProject
cd myProject
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Now, create a directory for your source files, including directories for the org.lcsim base package.
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mkdir -p src/org/lcsim
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Build Files
The project's root directory needs to contain three Maven configuration files.
- project.xml - main configuration file, listing the project's core meta-information and its dependencies
- maven.xml - Maven settings, such as the default build target
- project.properties - project properties file, including source repository locations, e.g. freehep.org
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These can be
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obtained from org.lcsim's root directory
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cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.freehep.org:/cvs/lcd lcsim
cd lcsim
cp project.xml maven.xml project.properties ..
cd ..
rm -rf lcsim
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After copying these files from the After copying over these files from an org.lcsim checkout, the following lines should be inserted into project.xml to make it depend on org.lcsim, itself.
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