If you want to use M.E.T.A., you need maven. The current Maven release is 1.0 and proved to be stable and working well with the M.E.T.A. plugin. You can either get a binary or a source distribution from the Maven site.
After installing Maven, you can use the following maven command to download and install the plugin in one go:
maven -DartifactId=maven-turbine-plugin -DgroupId=turbine -Dversion=1.2 plugin:download
Installing the plugin through the plugin:download
is the preferred to go.
Alternatively, you can get it from the Turbine download page.
M.E.T.A. Plugin (Version 1.2) |
To install it manually, you copy this jar file into your local plugin directory, which is either referenced by MAVEN_HOME_LOCAL/plugins or the global plugins directory at MAVEN_HOME/plugins. Which one to use depends on your maven installation. You find some documentation on how to do this on the maven install page.
After the installation, run maven -g
and check whether the following
targets are displayed in the goal list:
[turbine] ( NO DEFAULT GOAL ) deploy ......................... Deploys the Application into a local web container for testing install-libs ................... updates the libraries for an inplace application setup .......................... Setup a new Turbine web application sql ............................ Build the SQL files necessary for the application war ............................ Generate a Turbine based Web application ( war)
You are now ready to use M.E.T.A. Continue to the Getting Started page.