Building JBoss EJB3 from source

• Install Apache Ant 1.6.5 - Must be 1.6.5 (This dependency will either be removed or bundled transparently in the near future)
• Set Environment Variable $ANT_HOME

ANT_HOME=/location/to/ant
export ANT_HOME

• Install Subversion - Ensure "svn" is on the system's PATH (or symlinked)
• Install Apache Maven - Version 2.0.9+ (2.0.8 has non-deterministic dependency resolution)
• Ensure "mvn" is on the system's PATH (or symlinked)
• Set up ~/.m2/settings.xml to include JBoss Maven2 Repos - Instructions, Settings
• Install JDK
• Ensure "java" is on the system's PATH (or symlinked)
• Checkout JBoss EJB3 project from SVN :

    
svn co http://anonsvn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/ejb3/trunk
 

or (the next one is committer access)

    
svn co https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbossas/projects/ejb3/trunk
 

• Build the project :

    
cd trunk
mvn clean install