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# The Apache Jakarta Tomcat 5 Servlet/JSP Container

## Building Tomcat

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Introduction

> Building Tomcat from CVS is very easy, and is the first step to contributing to Tomcat. The following is a step by step TODO list.

Download and install a Java Development Kit 1.4.x or later

> Earlier releases would also work, but are harder to work with due to the need to download additional dependencies. Tomcat also runs much faster on the latest 1.4 JDK.

> The Sun JDK can be downloaded here.

> IMPORTANT: Set an environment variable JAVA_HOME to the pathname of the directory into which you installed the JDK release.

Install Apache Ant 1.5.x

> Download a binary distribution of Ant 1.5.x from here.

> Unpack the binary distribution into a convenient location so that the Ant release resides in its own directory (conventionally named "jakarta-ant-1.5.1"). For the purposes of the remainder of this document, the symbolic name "${ant.home}" is used to refer to the full pathname of the release directory.

> Create an ANT_HOME environment variable to point the directory ${ant.home}, and modify the PATH environment variable to include directory "${ant.home}/bin" in its list. This makes the "ant" command line script available, which will be used to actually perform the build.

Building Tomcat

> Download the main build.xml script from here.

> Create a new directory, and copy the newly download build.xml to it. This directory will be referred to as the ${tomcat.source} directory in the rest of this document.

> Go to that directory, and do: `
> cd ${tomcat.source}
> ant
> `

> NOTE: Users accessing the Internet through a proxy must use a properties file to indicate to Ant the proxy configuration. Read below.

> WARNING: Running this command will checkout the Tomcat 5 sources from CVS, as well as download binaries to the `/usr/share/java` directory. Make sure this is appropriate to do so on your computer. On Windows, this usually corresponds to the `C:\usr\share\java` directory, unless Cygwin is used. Read below to customize the directory used to download the binaries.

> The build can be controlled by creating a ${tomcat.source}/build.properties file, and adding the following content to it: `
> # ----- Proxy setup -----
> # Uncomment if using a proxy server.
> #proxy.host=proxy.domain
> #proxy.port=8080
> #proxy.use=on
> # ----- Default Base Path for Dependent Packages -----
> # Replace this path with the directory path where
> # dependencies binaries should be downloaded.
> base.path=/usr/share/java
> `

Updating and rebuilding Tomcat sources

> It is recommended to regularly update the downloaded Tomcat 5 sources. To do this, execute the following commands: `
> cd ${tomcat.source}
> ant checkout
> `

> For a quick rebuild of only modified code you can use: `
> cd ${tomcat.source}
> ant build
> `

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