How to build DXA

1 Get DXA source

• Checkout https://github.com/sdl/dxa-web-application-java/tree/develop

2 Get DD4T 2.0.x-SNAPSHOT source

DXA is contributing to DD4T and needs some changes which are not in the DD4T 2.0 beta release yet.

• Checkout https://github.com/sdl/dd4t-2-java/commits/ecl-data
• DXA needs some changes in this ECL data branch

3 Build dependencies

• Install libraries in local Maven repository:

  • Take the script from https://gist.github.com/2c4a2b6a20b17a3cf2ee
  • Run the script in the DXA source folder tridion-libs\7.1.0
  • This will install Tridion and 3rd party dependencies with DD4T's flavour of artifactIds.

• Comment out the jdbcpool dependency in the DD4T source code in dd4t-example-site\pom.xml. It breaks the build. I do not know what it is for, where to get it, and it is not needed to build DXA.

• Build DD4T 2.0.x-SNAPSHOT and install it in the local Maven repository:

  • Go to the root of the DD4T source and run mvn clean install -Dgpg.skip=true
  • This will install the DD4T libraries in your local repo without signing jars or uploading them to Maven Central.

4 Build DXA

• Build DXA. There is no need to install it in your local Maven repository.
  • Go to the root of the DXA source and run mvn clean package