Required Software

• Git
• Java 8 JDK
  
  • Make sure that your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to the newly installed JDK location, and that your PATH includes %JAVA_HOME%\bin (Windows) or $JAVA_HOME/bin (*NIX).
• Maven
  
  • Installation instructions
  • Make sure that Maven has enough memory to build DDF. Set appropriate memory settings in the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable such as "-Xms64m -Xmx4096m"

Setting up a Build Environment

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Install the git hooks (see below for more info)

cd ddf/gitsetup
mvn install -Pgitsetup
cd ddf-support/gitsetup
mvn install -Pgitsetup

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