Jetspeed 2 Build Process Clean Up - Step 2

Warning: Instructions on this post may become outdated, please be sure to visit Jetspeed 2's getting started for the latest documentation.

Step 2 of Jetspeed's build process clean up has been committed. As a result, a few things have changed when build the latest Jetspeed (2.0-M4-SNAPSHOT and above). A summary of the changes made can be found in Apache Jetspeed Jira.

Then new steps to get started are changed as follow:

If you are build off of Jetspeed 2 source code for the first time:

cd ${jetspeed-2-home} 
maven initMavenPlugin allClean allBuild 

If the Jetspeed 2 maven plugin is installed, then to build the portal and all its components run:

 
cd ${jetspeed-2-home} 
maven allClean allBuild 

If you are using the Hypersonic SQL database, start the production Hypersonic database by typing

maven j2:start.production.server 

Then run quickStart (in seperate window/terminal session):

cd ${jetspeed-2-home} 
maven j2:quickStart 

This will recreate the DB to deploy into. WARNING This will drop all the tables and data in the production database.

3. Start up Tomcat. With a browser, go to: http://localhost:8080/jetspeed

If you are creating a new Portal Application without the Jetspeed source:

In order to get started with a new portal application that will include a developer's specific portal customization, Jetspeed 2 provides as part of its Maven Plugin a goal that can get you started with your project. To do so:

1. Make sure that the following properties are set in your your ${USER_HOME}/build.properties file:

- org.apache.jetspeed.portal.name: e.g. testportal. The name of your new portal application. This will also be used as the artifactId for your project in the maven repository.
- org.apache.jetspeed.genapp.home: e.g. C:/tools/workspace/testportal. The location where your new portal application should be created.
- org.apache.jetspeed.genapp.groupId: e.g. testportal. The maven pom group id indicates the group location for your project in the maven repository.
- org.apache.jetspeed.genapp.name: e.g. My Test Portal. A friendly name for your new portal.
- org.apache.jetspeed.genapp.currentVersion: e.g. 1.0. The current version for your new portal application.

2. Once the above properties are set, make sure that the Jetspeed 2 Maven Plugin is installed on your local machine. You can install the Jetspeed 2 Maven Plugin as follow:

maven -DartifactId=maven-jetspeed2-plugin -DgroupId=jetspeed2
      -Dversion=2.0-M4-SNAPSHOT plugin:download 

where

- artifactId: The name of the Jetspeed2 plugin artifact deployed to the maven repository.
- groupId: The name of the group where the Jetspeed2 plugin is deployed in the maven repository.
- version: The version that you want to use. For this functionality, the version should be 2.0-M4-SNAPSHOT or above.

3. Run the Jetspeed2 plugin target for generating a new portal application:

maven j2:genapp.portal 

4. Go to the directory where you just created your new portal application and execute:

maven j2:portal.install 
maven j2:quickStart 

That's it, you are ready to get started with your new portal application.