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+How to build SIMAN java libraries and web archives (siman.war and Siman-WS.war)
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+1. Download and Install ant as described here
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+http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html
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+for example, apache-ant-1.8.4-bin.zip
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+Make sure you have a Java environment installed (jdk 1.6.0)
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+
+2. Take from SIMAN Java source codes from SIMAN CVS repository like this
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+cvs -d :pserver:bri@cvs.opencascade.com:/home/server/cvs/SIMAN checkout SIMAN_SRC
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+
+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
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+
+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
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