1. download the latest version of maven at http://maven.apache.org/download.html
(maven 2.0.7)
2.
a. Unzip Unzip maven-2.0.7-bin.zip to the directory you wish to install Maven 2.0.7.
b. Add the bin directory to your path
c. make sure that JAVA_HOME is set to the location of your JDK
d. Run mvn --version to verify that maven is correctly installed .
3. check out the thalia code from svn: svn+ssh://username@svn.mit.edu/zest/thalia-maven
4. go to the directory thalia-maven/trunk/thalia and run
mvn clean package
it will generate the war file
5. to deploy the war:
a. Currently, it will deploy to isda-thalia-1.mit.edu. You need to modify the pom.xml file to specify a different location
b. to specify tomcat authentication info, add the following line in settings.xml in $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
<server>
<id>deploymentserver</id>
<username>username</username>
<password>password</password>
</server>
c. do
mvn tomcat:deploy
For more info on maven, go to :
http://maven.apache.org/run-maven/index.html
Maven book is at: http://www.sonatype.com/book/