How to build SIMAN java libraries and web archives (siman.war and Siman-WS.war)

1. Download and Install ant as described here

http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html

 
for example, apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.zip

Make sure you have a Java environment installed (jdk 1.6.0)

 
2. Take from SIMAN Java source codes from SIMAN CVS repository like this


cvs -d :pserver:bri@cvs.opencascade.com:/home/server/cvs/SIMAN checkout  SIMAN_SRC


3. Build SIMAN java libraries and web archive siman.war

- go to the directory SIMAN
- adjust JDBC properties to required RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL) in the file conf\release.properties
- adjust paths to ANT bin folder and JAVA_HOME in the file build-war.bat
- run script build-war.bat
- the result web archive siman.war is created in sub-directory dist


4. Build SIMAN java libraries and web archive Siman-WS.war

- go to the directory SIMAN-WS
- adjust JDBC properties to required RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL) in the file conf\release.properties
- adjust paths to ANT bin folder and JAVA_HOME in the file build-war.bat
- run script build-war.bat
- the result web archive SIMAN-WS.war is created in sub-directory dist

5. To build war files on Linux please create appropriate shell script file 
according to content of the file build-war.bat