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How to build Rome?

Rome is built using mighty Maven! This is why these instructions are so short:-)

If you don't want to build Rome we'd suggest you download a binary build:-)

Check out from GitHub

See GitHub for access intructions and to browse the source from your browser.

Setup maven

See Installing Maven for details.

Maven automatically downloads dependencies of a project from an online repository.

Build rome.jar

At the command prompt type:

> mvn package

This will build

rome/target/rome-VERSION.jar

You're good to go.

Build a full binary distribution

> mvn install

Build the project site

> mvn site

For Rome developers

Work on Rome using Eclipse

> mvn eclipse:eclipse

will setup the Eclipse project for you.