This section aims at helping you apply eXo Platform to your projects successfully by introducing eXo architecture and giving step-by-step instructions for you to build your own custom portal based on eXo Platform.
Requirements:
JDK (Java Development Kit) 6.0
SVN 1.6+
Maven 2.2.1+
Tomcat 6.0.26 or JBoss 5.1.0
Install and configure Maven:
You need to add a system environment variable MAVEN_OPTS (it could be in a .profile startup script on Linux/MacOS operating systems or in the global environment variables panel on Windows).
Windows:
set MAVEN_OPTS=-Xshare:auto -Xms128M -Xmx1G -XX:MaxPermSize=256M
Linux/MacOS:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xshare:auto -Xms128M -Xmx1G -XX:MaxPermSize=256M"
Maven settings:
1. Save the settings.xml file to the path: HOME/.m2/settings.xml.
2. Edit and change the local-properties profile, including:
exo.projects.directory.dependencies contains the application servers, and Openfire.
each exo.projects.app.AS-NAME.version contains the name and version of the application servers.
If the settings.xml file has been existing, you can merge them. You will need the followings:
The local-properties profile, which defines properties, is used to build application server distributions of our products.
The repository to download our dependencies.