Why Building?

In most cases you will not need to build WebWork yourself, since the distribution package contains all you need to get started and productive with WebWork. See Getting Started for more information on how to start working with the distributed binaries. However, there are situations where you want to build WebWork from scratch, for example if you want to try out tweaks and patches, or simply if want to check the head of current development. For the latter one, a solution apart from building WebWork from scratch might be to have a look into our Ivy Repository containing continous integration builds ("nightly builds"), containing the latest build of WebWork and XWork jars.

Getting the Sources

Distribution

The current distribution packages of webwork contain all sources, as well as all needed libraries for building jars and running. Distribution packages are found here.
The dependency resolution via Ivy is disabled by default for build from distribution package (> Webwork 2.2 Beta 4). If you need to work with the Clover and Ivy related buildfile tasks, you might want to follow the instructions below.

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