| About Empire-DB |
| =============== |
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| Apache Empire-db is a lightweight data access and persistence component for |
| relational databases based on JDBC. |
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| For release details see the file CHANGELOG.txt or visit the Empire-db website at |
| http://empire-db.apache.org |
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| Getting Started |
| =============== |
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| An introduction to Empire-db is provided with the tutorial.pdf document |
| that can be found in the root directory of the distribution. |
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| This component requires a Java 5 JDK (or higher). |
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| Building |
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| To build Empire-db you need Apache Maven 2.0.9 or newer, which can be downloaded from |
| http://maven.apache.org/download.html. |
| Make sure that your PATH includes the MVN_HOME/bin directory. |
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| In order to build Empire-db use the following command from the command line: |
| > mvn clean install |
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| There are various ways to open the project(s) in your favorite IDE: |
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| === Eclipse === |
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| - From the command line: |
| Change to the 'src' sub-directory and run the following command: |
| > mvn clean eclipse:eclipse -DdownloadSources=true |
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| In Eclipse choose: Import... Existing projects into workspace |
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| or |
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| - Install the M2Eclipse plugin from |
| http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/ |
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| In Eclipse choose: Import... Maven projects |
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| === Netbeans === |
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| - Install the Maven plugin available in the update center (tools - plugins) |
| Open the project like you open any other Netbeans project |
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| Getting help |
| ============ |
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| The best place for getting help is the empire-db user mailing list. |
| First subscribe to the list by sending an email to: |
| user-subscribe@empire-db.apache.org |
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| Afterwards you may post a message to: |
| user@empire-db.apache.org |
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| Please visit our Website for more information. |
| http://empire-db.apache.org |
