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<section id="source-build">
    <title>Building &PRODUCT; from Source</title>
    <note>
        <para>Prior to the 4.0.0 incubating release, Ant was used to build &PRODUCT;. A migration to Maven started in the 4.0.0 cycle, and has completed in 4.1.0.</para>
        <para>The website and the wiki contain up to date information on the build procedure at:</para>
            <itemizedlist>
                <listitem><para><ulink url="https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/building-with-maven.html">https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/building-with-maven.html</ulink></para></listitem>
                <listitem><para><ulink url="https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/setting-up-cloudstack-development-environment.html">https://cwiki.apache.org/CLOUDSTACK/setting-up-cloudstack-development-environment.html</ulink></para></listitem>
            </itemizedlist>
    </note>
    <para>The overarching steps to build &PRODUCT; are:.</para>
    <itemizedlist>
        <listitem><para>Install the prerequisites and setup your environment</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Understand that various Maven profiles and build targets</para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>Deploy and test your build </para></listitem>
        <listitem><para>If needed, learn how to build binaries</para></listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <note>
        <para>Learning Maven is outside the scope of this documentation.</para>
        <para>Go to the Maven website at <ulink url="http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html">http://maven.apache.org/guides/getting-started/index.html</ulink></para>
    </note>

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