Requirements

You need the following components on the desktop on which you are going to develop your synchronization tasks:

• Java Virtual Machine (JDK) >= 1.5 (tested on Sun 1.5 and 1.6 VM)
• Maven 2.0+ (tested from 2.0.7)
• Ant 1.6+

Target production servers need:

• on Unix / Linux: a Java 1.5 virtual machine (JRE) (production must be the same major version), /bin/sh and /etc/cron.d
• on MacOS: fully functional on MacOS X
• on Windows: some problems have been identified with the generation wizard, but the LSC is fully functional

• Check that the JAVA_HOME environment variable is set up. If not, set it up with a command like this (adapt the path to your system):

$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun

• Add the mvn command line wrapper to Maven in your path (through ~/.bashrc or something equivalent)

• Check that the ANT_HOME environment variable is set up, or set it up with the following command line:

$ export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant

• Currently, the version of ant packaged in Ubuntu contains a weird patch which makes it incompatible with AntInstaller and the “native2ascii” task. We recommend using installing your own version of ant.

If you want to customize your synchronization tasks at an advanced level, you can edit some Java classes. This is beyond the scope of a simple installation tutorial, however.

IDE requirements are described here.