Building with Maven 3

Maven is a build tool that goes far beyond simply compiling and packaging a product. It is also able to resolve dependencies (including downloading the appropriate versions from the public repositories), to run automated tests, to launch various checking tools and to create a web site for a project. It runs on any platform supporting Java.

For systems not providing maven as a package, maven can be downloaded from its site at the Apache Software Foundation: http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi, this page also explains the installation procedure.

As with all maven enabled projects, building Orekit is straightforward, simply run:

mvn package

The preceding command will perform all dependencies retrieval, compilation, tests and packaging for you. At the end, it will create a file named target/orekit-x.y.jar where x.y is the version number.

If you need to configure a proxy server for dependencies retrieval, see the Guide to using proxies page at the maven site.

If you already use maven for your own projects (or simply eclipse, see below), you may want to install Orekit in your local repository. This is done with the following command:

mvn install

For other commands like generating the site, or generating the checkstyle, findbugs or jacoco reports, see the maven plugins documentation at maven site: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/index.html.

Building with Ant

Ant is another well-known build tool. It is more ancient than maven and widely used. It does not provide as many features as maven (no site generation for example) but is very extensible.

For systems not providing ant as a package, it can be downloaded from its site at the Apache Software Foundation: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi. The installation procedure is explained in the on-line manual.

If you need to configure a proxy server for dependencies retrieval, see the Proxy configuration page at the ant site.

Compiling is done by running the command:

ant

Just as maven does, this command also retrieves the dependencies from public repositories, compiles the sources and creates a file named build/orekit-x.y.jar where x.y is the version number.

Building with Eclipse

Eclipse is a very rich Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It is a huge product and not a simple build tool.

For systems not providing eclipse as a package, it can be downloaded from its site at the Eclipse Foundation: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.

The simplest way to use Orekit with Eclipse is to follow these steps:

• unpack the distribution inside your Eclipse workspace
• create a new java project from existing sources and direct Eclipse to the directory where you unpacked Orekit
• set the source folders to orekit/src/main/java, orekit/src/main/resources, orekit/src/test/java, orekit/src/test/resources, orekit/src/tutorials/java and orekit/src/tutorials/resources in the source tab of the Configure Build Path dialog
• set the external libraries to JRE system library (provided by Eclipse), Junit 4.x (provided by Eclipse) and Apache Commons Math 3.2 (available at Apache Software Foundation Commons Math downloads page) in the libraries tab of the Configure Build Path dialog