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Quick Guide to Maven for Axis2

The Axis2 build uses Maven 3 and requires Maven 3.6.0 or later and JDK 17 through 25 (the build is tested on OpenJDK 17, 21 and 25). To build the source code, use the following command:

mvn clean install

The build may fail because Maven runs out of memory. To avoid this, increase the heap size using the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable, as shown in the following example:

MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g"

Note that depending on your platform and Java version, you may need to adjust these values further.

Other useful build commands:

  • Skip test execution: mvn clean install -DskipTests=true

  • Simulate a release build: mvn clean install -Papache-release -Dgpg.skip=true

  • Build the site: mvn site (in the root directory of the source tree)

  • Quick build of the site without Javadocs: mvn site -N

For more information, consult the Maven documentation.