Requirements

• subversion  client >= 1.4
• sun  JDK >= 1.5
• apache  ant >= 1.6

Build the code

• checkout the code:

  $ svn co http://svn.dcache.org/dCache/trunk dCache-trunk-readonly
  $ cd dCache-trunk-readonly
  

• type ant to see available targets.
• build prefer target:

  $ ant server.rpm
  

Code Structure

For some historical reasons dCache code base not structured as usual JAVA projects. While this will change with in time you have to keep this structure for now:

modules/cells	Cell message passing framefork
modules/dCache	dCache code components ( Doors, PoolManager, PnfsManager, Pools and so on )
modules/srm	Generic SRM interface, dCache specific part
modules/srmclient	SRM client
modules/dcap	DCAP client
modules/dCacheJUnit	junit tests
modules/external	third parity libraries used by dcache
modules-build	ant build scripts used to build dcache

patching

you patch have to be compliant to our rules