HowTo - First steps with YASTE (Setup)

This section describes the setup process required for participating in YASTE development.

Java Development Kit 6

JDK6 should be installed on your system and the JAVA_HOME variable should be set. (Java download)

Maven 2

Download Apache Maven and unpack it. (Maven download) Add the path of the maven binary to your PATH variable. Further more you should add a MAVEN_OPTS variable with "-Xmx1024M -XX:MaxPermSize=512m".

GIT version control

GIT (or SVN) is required to check out the latest development release from our source base. For GIT we recommend the latest Cygwin with git packages. (GIT download) Please set at least the following variables.

git config --global user.name "Firstname Secondname"
git config --global user.email "my@email.com"
git config --global core.autocrlf input

Getting YASTE

Just checkout the YASTE master branch with the following command:

git clone git://github.com/openengsb/yaste.git