Setup

Very confusing. I am just writing down what I remember!

Get “maven” working.

Checkout the jackrabbit source from svn. In my case from:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/jackrabbit/trunk

to:

C:\Tools\jackrabbit>

From README.txt:

After installing Maven 1.0, be sure to download the latest release of the Ant plugin (1.8.1 or later) using a command like

maven plugin:download -DgroupId=maven -DartifactId=maven-ant-plugin -Dversion=1.8.1

From README.txt:

NOTE: JDK 1.5 users need to download xalan.jar and place it in $MAVEN_HOME/lib/endorsed to build the Jackrabbit sources.

I think I downloaded:

xalan-j-current-bin-2jars.tar.gz

from:

http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.apache.org/xml/xalan-j

This includes xalan.jar in the following folder:

xalan-j-current-bin-2jars.tar.gz\xalan-j-current-bin-2jars.tar\xalan-j_2_6_0\bin

I think I changed into the following folder:

C:\Tools\jackrabbit\

ran:

maven jar:jar

This built and installed the following jars:

jackrabbit-api-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
jackrabbit-commons-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
jackrabbit-core-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar

into my maven repository:

C:\Documents and Settings\patrickk\.maven\repository\jackrabbit\jars

Not all tests passed - but most of them seemed to.

Then tried to build the “first steps” samples using maven. The instructions can be found at the following web page:

http://incubator.apache.org/jackrabbit/firststeps.html

I think I used maven genapp (see the maven how to). I had various issues which I have listed below:

I changed the maven genapp folders as suggested but forgot to change the project.xml file.
Could not find the javax.jcr jar file for ages. It is in the maven repository:
```
C:\Documents and Settings\patrickk\.maven\repository\jsr170\jars
```

Had to update the project.xml file with the following dependencies:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>jackrabbit</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackrabbit-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>jackrabbit</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackrabbit-commons</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>jackrabbit</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackrabbit-core</artifactId>
        <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>jsr170</groupId>
        <artifactId>jcr</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.8</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
        <artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
        <version>3.1</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>xerces</groupId>
        <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId>
        <version>2.6.2</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>concurrent</groupId>
        <artifactId>concurrent</artifactId>
        <version>1.3.4</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>lucene</groupId>
        <artifactId>lucene</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.3</version>
        <type>jar</type>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
<dependencies />

To set the repository location changed the sample source code as follows:
```
String repHomeDir = "c:/repository/jcr/";
```
Changed the repository.xml location to:
```
String configFile = "repository.xml";
```

The actual repository.xml file is in the root of my project:

C:\development\java\learning\jackrabbit\JCRTest1

Had log4j configuration file error (as always). Got it working by putting log4j.properties into:
```
C:\development\java\learning\jackrabbit\JCRTest1\target\classes
```
This is on my classpath which can (sort of) be seen by looking in: “Run…”, “Java Application”, “Classpath” tab
The jaas.config file was also placed in the root of my project:
```
C:\development\java\learning\jackrabbit\JCRTest1
```
Also added the following to eclipse, “Run…”, “Java Application”, “Arguments” tab, “VM arguments”:
```
-Djava.security.auth.login.config==jaas.config
```
As I added each new dependancy I had to run maven eclipse from the command line and then refresh the eclipse project.

The finished project is in:
```
C:\development\java\learning\jackrabbit\JCRTest1
```