Appendix A. Building OpenCms from Source

This appendix covers the process of building OpenCms 5.0.x from source. Occasionally, OpenCms developers make changes to the sourcecode, but do not release a new version of the binary, and you may need to rebuild the sourcecode from scratch in order to incorporate those fixes into your instance of OpenCms. While the examples throughout this chapter are done using Linux, they should be applicable to the Windows environment as well. In this appendix, we will cover:

• Getting the OpenCms 5.0.1 source

• Checking out the 5.0.x sourcecode

• Building with Ant

• Generating Javadocs