Building Apache Karaf

Initial Setup

  1. Install J2SE 8.0 SDK (or later), which can be downloaded from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html Use version of “JDK 8.0 Update 131” (or later).

  2. Make sure that your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the newly installed JDK location, and that your PATH includes %JAVA_HOME%\bin (windows) or $JAVA_HOME$/bin (unix).

  3. Install Maven 3.5.0 (or later), which can be downloaded from http://maven.apache.org/download.html. Make sure that your PATH includes the $MVN_HOME/bin directory.

Building

  1. Change to the top level directory of Apache Karaf source distribution.

  2. Run

    $> mvn clean install

    This will compile Apache Karaf and run all of the tests in the Apache Karaf source distribution. Alternatively, you can run:

    $> mvn clean install -DskipTests

    This will compile Apache Karaf without running the tests and takes less time to build.

  3. The distributions will be available under assemblies/apache-karaf/target and assemblies/apache-karaf-minimal/target directories.