Building

ServiceMix uses Maven as its build tool. If you don't fancy using Maven you can use your IDE directly or Download a distribution or JAR.

We have tested the build with Maven 2.0.6 and it works fine.
Previous / later versions of Maven may vary - if you hit problems on other versions please talk to us on the Mailing Lists.
Be sure to read the FAQ

Getting started

• Download and install Maven.
• Get the latest code from SVN
• Build the code with the following command

mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dprofile=step1 install
mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true -Dprofile=step2 install

Next time you build, you can just run

mvn -Dmaven.test.skip=true install

Code Conventions

Checkstyle and PMD rules are used to scour the ServiceMix source code when performing a build. If you are hacking code and it does not follow these conventions, the build will fail. To make things easier on folks who are using Eclipse, there is an Eclipse code convention profile that matches the Checkstyle conventions, making things a bit easier in this regard. Import this profile into Eclipse under Preferences->Java->Code Style->Formatter->Import.

Using an IDE

Using Eclipse

For Eclipse, a detailed description is given at Importing ServiceMix into Eclipse. In addition, this page also describes how to start ServiceMix inside Eclipse with all debugging possibilities.

Other IDEs

If you prefer to use another IDE then you can autogenerate the IDE's project files using maven plugins. e.g.

mvn idea:idea

etc.

Note that you may need to build the whole ServiceMix project once using maven.

Please refer to the plugin reference for more details on using them.