Comments on: Building Spring 3

By: Chris Beams

Chris Beams — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:22:58 +0000

Bob,

Sorry for the confusion. Starting with Spring 3.0, there is no longer a complete 'with source and dependencies' distribution. There is simply the core zip file containing all Spring jars, and then the '-dependencies' zip containing all third-party dependencies. Thus, no ant buildfiles, etc. If you'd like to build the release from source, simply follow the instructions above, substituting the repository url with https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-framework/tags/spring-framework-3.0.1.RELEASE-A

By: Bob Lauer

Bob Lauer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:21:16 +0000

@Chris: I downloaded the "… with-dependencies" package from
http://www.springsource.com/download/community?project=Spring Framework

(on some page that I cannot find right now it said that the "… with-dependencies" should contain the source code and everything you need).

By: Chris Beams

Chris Beams — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:13:16 +0000

Hi Bob,

Just so we're on the same page, what exactly did you download? From where?

Checking out from svn will certainly work, but you should be able to build the source dist, too. Let me know, thanks.

By: Bob Lauer

Bob Lauer — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:41:58 +0000

… I have just downloaded the source release, and it seems that the bootstrap ant script that builds the whole source tree is not bundled with that release. Do I have to check out Spring from Subversion in order to build it? Or is there a "shortcut" to build all the ivy packages in the source release?

Cheers,

Robert.

By: Harish

Harish — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:49:31 +0000

I was able to build using ant in 22 minutes on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2). I received OutOfMemory errors initially. I resolved it using the below command.
alias ant="ANT_OPTS='-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m -Xmx1024m' ant -Dtest.vm.args='-XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Xmx1024m' -Dcompiler.args='-enableJavadoc -warn:none'"

By: Yang Gu

Yang Gu — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:10:12 +0000

It's crazy, the maven2 build system was not support again within spring 3 and current can't build with maven2. I remember maven2 work good with the initial version of spring3. It take me so long time to build spring3 with ant and finally I have to cancel it. If I may, I strong suggest provide maven2 support for the spring build system.

By: Jin Chun

Jin Chun — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:50:01 +0000

@Qunhuan: thanks for posting your solution, did the trick for me

cheers!

By: hantsy

hantsy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:25:29 +0000

Build failed for 3.0.0 RELEASE.

BUILD FAILED
/home/hantsy/Source/spring-framework/spring-build/multi-bundle/artifact.xml:45: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/hantsy/Source/spring-framework/spring-build/multi-bundle/common.xml:71: The following error occurred while executing this line:
/home/hantsy/Source/spring-framework/spring-build/common/common.xml:91: impossible to configure ivy:settings with given file: /home/hantsy/Source/spring-framework/spring-build/common/ivysettings.xml : java.text.ParseException: failed to load settings from file:/home/hantsy/Source/spring-framework/spring-build/common/ivysettings.xml: impossible to define new type: class not found: org.springframework.aws.ivy.S3Resolver in [] nor Ivy classloader

Total time: 4 seconds

By: Qunhuan Mei

Qunhuan Mei — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:42:23 +0000

Hi Chris,

Thank you so much for your help!

After some more tries, I eventually see this “BUILD SUCCESSFUL” on my Windows XP machine.

Here is the setting I used (My machine has 2G memory with 1.5G available at run-time):

1. Environmental variable (set for PermSize):
ANT_OPTS=-XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx512m

2. Changed 2 memory related lines from build.properties file to increase the memory heap for test vm:
javadoc.max.memory=128M
test.vm.args=-Xmx768M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -XX: HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

Then after 45minutes of building and testing. I saw the following:

“BUILD SUCCESSFUL”

By: Chris Beams

Chris Beams — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:24:03 +0000

@Qunhuan – make sure you've set ANT_OPTS properly to increase the VM size. See http://blog.springsource.com/2009/03/03/building-spring-3/#comment-165987