Last Published : April 23 2010

Environment Setup required for development environment


This section describes the environment setup required to perform valid build and to bootstrap the application stack

Setting up Ant


Download ANT from http://ant.apache.org and set the environment variable ANT_HOME to point to you deployment directory.For the ANT scp task to function download jsch.jar from http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/.Additionally the db installation tasks will require ant-contrib-1.0b3.jar

Installing JBOSS


Download jboss from http://www.jboss.org. The current build setup requires JBoss 4.2.2 , so while the binary might work in other versions of jboss 4.2.2 is required for this build. Set the JBOSS_HOME environment variable to point to jboss installation directory.

Installing MySQL 5.2


Install mysql 5.2 and create the schema from the mobchanneldb.sql script present in the mobchannelDATA->sql->ddl directory

Setting up and eclipse ide.


Eclipse is our primary build and development IDE. All the projects contain the required .classpath and .project files for build integration with the eclipse environment.JBOSS_HOME,ANT_HOME need to be added as eclipse build variables.