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 paths to ANT bin folder, JAVA_HOME and required RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL) in the file build-war.bat or build-war.sh - run script build-war.bat or build-war.sh - the result web archive siman.war is created in sub-directory dist The examples of "# Connection properties" of release.properties for PostgreSQL and MySQL are provided correspondingly in the files release_pg.properties and release_mysql.properties. 4. Build SIMAN java libraries and web archive Siman-WS.war - go to the directory SIMAN-WS - adjust paths to ANT bin folder, JAVA_HOME and required RDBMS (MySQL or PostgreSQL) in the file build-war.bat or build-war.sh - run script build-war.bat or build-war.sh - the result web archive SIMAN-WS.war is created in sub-directory dist