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Building Akka
=============
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.. _building-akka:
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Building Akka
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This page describes how to build and run Akka from the latest source code.
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Get the source code
-------------------
===================
Akka uses `Git <http://git-scm.com>`_ and is hosted at `Github
<http://github.com>`_.
Akka uses `Git`_ and is hosted at `Github`_.
.. _Git: http://git-scm.com
.. _Github: http://github.com
You first need Git installed on your machine. You can then clone the source
repositories:
- Akka repository from `<http://github.com/jboner/akka>`_
- Akka Modules repository from `<http://github.com/jboner/akka-modules>`_
- Akka repository from http://github.com/jboner/akka
- Akka Modules repository from http://github.com/jboner/akka-modules
For example::
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SBT - Simple Build Tool
-----------------------
=======================
Akka is using the excellent `SBT <http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool>`_
build system. So the first thing you have to do is to download and install
SBT. You can read more about how to do that `here
<http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/Setup>`_ .
Akka is using the excellent `SBT`_ build system. So the first thing you have to
do is to download and install SBT. You can read more about how to do that in the
`SBT setup`_ documentation.
.. _SBT: http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool
.. _SBT setup: http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/Setup
The SBT commands that you'll need to build Akka are all included below. If you
want to find out more about SBT and using it for your own projects do read the
`SBT documentation
<http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/RunningSbt>`_.
`SBT documentation`_.
.. _SBT documentation: http://code.google.com/p/simple-build-tool/wiki/RunningSbt
The Akka SBT build file is ``project/build/AkkaProject.scala`` with some
properties defined in ``project/build.properties``.
Building Akka
-------------
=============
First make sure that you are in the akka code directory::
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Fetching dependencies
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
---------------------
SBT does not fetch dependencies automatically. You need to manually do this with
the ``update`` command::
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Building
^^^^^^^^
--------
To compile all the Akka core modules use the ``compile`` command::
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Publish to local Ivy repository
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-------------------------------
If you want to deploy the artifacts to your local Ivy repository (for example,
to use from an SBT project) use the ``publish-local`` command::
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Publish to local Maven repository
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
---------------------------------
If you want to deploy the artifacts to your local Maven repository use::
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SBT interactive mode
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--------------------
Note that in the examples above we are calling ``sbt compile`` and ``sbt test``
and so on. SBT also has an interactive mode. If you just run ``sbt`` you enter
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starting up a new JVM instance for each command and can be much faster and more
convenient.
For example, building Akka as above is more commonly done like this:
.. code-block:: none
For example, building Akka as above is more commonly done like this::
% sbt
[info] Building project akka 1.1-SNAPSHOT against Scala 2.9.0.RC1
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SBT batch mode
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
--------------
It's also possible to combine commands in a single call. For example, updating,
testing, and publishing Akka to the local Ivy repository can be done with::
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Building Akka Modules
---------------------
=====================
To build Akka Modules first build and publish Akka to your local Ivy repository
as described above. Or using::
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Microkernel distribution
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
------------------------
To build the Akka Modules microkernel (the same as the Akka Modules distribution
download) use the ``dist`` command::
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To run the microkernel, unzip the zip file, change into the unzipped directory,
set the ``AKKA_HOME`` environment variable, and run the main jar file. For
example:
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example::
unzip dist/akka-modules-1.1-SNAPSHOT.zip
cd akka-modules-1.1-SNAPSHOT
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Scripts
-------
=======
Linux/Unix init script
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
----------------------
Here is a Linux/Unix init script that can be very useful:
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Simple startup shell script
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
---------------------------
This little script might help a bit. Just make sure you have the Akka
distribution in the '$AKKA_HOME/dist' directory and then invoke this script to
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Dependencies
------------
============
If you are managing dependencies by hand you can find out what all the compile
dependencies are for each module by looking in the ``lib_managed/compile``
directories. For example, you can run this to create a listing of dependencies
(providing you have the source code and have run ``sbt update``)::
If you are managing dependencies by hand you can find the dependencies for each
module by looking in the ``lib_managed`` directories. For example, this will
list all compile dependencies (providing you have the source code and have run
``sbt update``)::
cd akka
ls -1 */lib_managed/compile
Dependencies used by the Akka core modules
------------------------------------------
akka-actor
^^^^^^^^^^
* No dependencies
akka-stm
^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-actor
* multiverse-alpha-0.6.2.jar
akka-typed-actor
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-stm
* aopalliance-1.0.jar
* aspectwerkz-2.2.3.jar
* guice-all-2.0.jar
akka-remote
^^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-typed-actor
* commons-codec-1.4.jar
* commons-io-2.0.1.jar
* dispatch-json_2.8.1-0.7.8.jar
* guice-all-2.0.jar
* h2-lzf-1.0.jar
* jackson-core-asl-1.7.1.jar
* jackson-mapper-asl-1.7.1.jar
* junit-4.8.1.jar
* netty-3.2.3.Final.jar
* objenesis-1.2.jar
* protobuf-java-2.3.0.jar
* sjson_2.8.1-0.9.1.jar
akka-http
^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-remote
* jsr250-api-1.0.jar
* jsr311-api-1.1.jar
Dependencies used by the Akka modules
-------------------------------------
akka-amqp
^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-remote
* commons-cli-1.1.jar
* amqp-client-1.8.1.jar
akka-camel
^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-actor
* camel-core-2.7.0.jar
* commons-logging-api-1.1.jar
* commons-management-1.0.jar
akka-camel-typed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-typed-actor
* camel-core-2.7.0.jar
* commons-logging-api-1.1.jar
* commons-management-1.0.jar
akka-spring
^^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-camel
* akka-camel-typed
* commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
* spring-aop-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
* spring-asm-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
* spring-beans-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
* spring-context-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
* spring-core-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
* spring-expression-3.0.4.RELEASE.jar
akka-scalaz
^^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-actor
* hawtdispatch-1.1.jar
* hawtdispatch-scala-1.1.jar
* scalaz-core_2.8.1-6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
akka-kernel
^^^^^^^^^^^
* Depends on akka-http, akka-amqp, and akka-spring
* activation-1.1.jar
* asm-3.1.jar
* jaxb-api-2.1.jar
* jaxb-impl-2.1.12.jar
* jersey-core-1.3.jar
* jersey-json-1.3.jar
* jersey-scala-1.3.jar
* jersey-server-1.3.jar
* jettison-1.1.jar
* jetty-continuation-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-http-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-io-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-security-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-server-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-servlet-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-util-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* jetty-xml-7.1.6.v20100715.jar
* servlet-api-2.5.jar
* stax-api-1.0.1.jar
You can also look at the Ivy dependency resolution information that is created
on ``sbt update`` and found in ``~/.ivy2/cache``. For example, the
``.ivy2/cache/se.scalablesolutions.akka-akka-remote-compile.xml`` file contains
the resolution information for the akka-remote module compile dependencies. If
you open this file in a web browser you will get an easy to navigate view of
dependencies.