Developer Guide

Zanata Developer Guide

Development tools

• Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.6 - yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel
• GIT - Source code repository
• Eclipse IDE for J2EE (Helios/3.6)
• MySQL database
• JBoss AS
• Maven v2.X - v3

Zanata Developer Setup Guide

1. install JDK 1.6 (see above)
2. install git
3. get Zanata source GitHubSetup
4. install Maven
5. install MySQL client and server
6. create database: zanata
7. install JBoss
8. configure JBoss
9. add MySQL JDBC driver to JBoss
10. add Zanata datasource to JBoss
11. add mysql and JBoss details to maven settings
12. install Eclipse
13. add Eclipse plugins
14. prepare zanata for eclipse import
15. import zanata into eclipse
16. configure Eclipse

Zanata Architecture Overview

See Architecture and Source-Code-Structure