Obtaining the code

You can obtain the code by downloading the source distribution or, more commonly, checking out the source from Subversion (SVN). To checkout the code from Subversion, firstly get subversion installed, then use the following commands:

svn co https://hr-crm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hr-crm/trunk hrcrm

If you are a committer then you need to use the secure version:

svn co https://hr-crm.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/hr-crm/trunk hrcrm

Building

The first thing you need to build the code is JDK1.6 and Maven2. You need at least version 2.0.7.

To build, in the top level HR-CRM folder do:

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true -P ear

There is additional end2end testing module, which can be activated with the all profile. First you must set two environments variables: JBOSS_HOME and JBOSS_PORT and initialize the database using this script

mvn clean install -P all

Offline builds

The first time you build Maven downloads all the required dependency jars to your local repository, after there has been a successful build you can add the "-o" parameter to the above commands to run in offline mode which avoids going out to remote Maven repositories. The result - the build runs faster.

mvn clean install -o

Skipping tests

If you don't want to have all the HR-CRM test cases run during the build you can add the parameter "-Dmaven.test.skip=true", eg:

mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Updating_Snapshots

Sometimes the trunk build uses snapshot versions of some dependency jars which can go out of date but may not get refreshed in your local Maven repository even when the "-o" parameter is not used. So if you get build failures you can try refreshing any snapshot dependencys with the "-U" parameter, eg:

mvn clean install -U

By default the Maven local repository is in your home directory, you can change this so the build uses use a different local repository with the parameter "-Dmaven.repo.local=", eg:

mvn clean install -Dmaven.repo.local=\HR-CRM\MyRepo

Eclipse_Projects

You can create Eclipse project definitions for HR-CRM (that can be imported directly into Eclipse). At the top level HR-CRM folder run:

mvn eclipse:eclipse -P all

Now within eclipse you can import those HR-CRM projects into an Eclipse workspace. From Eclipse do File -> Import, expand the "General" toggle and choose "Existing Projects into Workspace", click Next, click Browse and navigate to your HR-CRM SVN folder, click OK and it should find the six HR-CRM projects, click Finish. That should set up the projects and show them in the Package Explorer. There will be lots of compile errors about missing classpath entries, to fix this select Window -> Preferences, expend the Java toggle, then expand the Build Path toggle and select Classpath Variables. Click New and use the name "M2_REPO" and then click Folder and navigate to you local Maven repository (eg USER_HOME/.m2/repository), click OK and again OK and it should rebuild everything with all the compile errors gone.