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Geode in 5 minutes

With JDK 1.8 or a more recent version installed, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the JDK installation.

Install Gradle, version 2.3 or a more recent version.

Obtain and unpack the source from the Releases page at http://geode.incubatorFollow the installation instructions at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/. Within the directory containing the unpacked source:

$ gradle build installDist -Dskip.tests=true

display/GEODE/Building+and+Running+Geode+from+Source to install Geode. 

With a path that contains the bin directory of the installation, start Start a locator and server:

$ cd gemfire-assembly/build/install/apache-geode $ ./bin/gfsh 

gfsh> start locator --name=locator 

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Compile and run HelloWorld.java. The classpath should include gemfiregeode-core-dependencies.jar.

$ javac -cp /some/path/incubator-geode/gemfiregeode-assembly/build/install/apache-geode/lib/gemfiregeode-core-dependencies.jar HelloWorld.java 
$ java -cp .:/some/path/incubator-geode/gemfiregeode-assembly/build/install/apache-geode/lib/gemfire-coregeode-dependencies.jar HelloWorld

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