How to build SimpleDBM

Download source code

Download the source code for SimpleDBM from the SimpleDBM website. Extract the source into a directory. This directory will be referred to as the ${simpledbm.home} directory in the rest of this document.

Download required software

Following software is required to build SimpleDBM.

J2SE 5.0 SDK or above

SimpleDBM requires J2SE 5.0 or above. Download and install JDK as per instructions provided with the release. We will refer to the installation directory as ${java.home} in the rest of this document.

Eclipse 3.1

Download a binary distribution of Eclipse 3.1. I am using Eclipse to build SimpleDBM, but you can also use the Netbeans IDE. I will eventually provide ant build files.

Make sure that Eclipse is setup to use J2SE 5.0 JRE, otherwise, SimpleDBM code will not compile. You can find instructions on how to do so here.

Create a Project in Eclipse

Create a Java project in Eclipse, and set the project directory to ${simpledbm.home}. Eclipse should do the rest.


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