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The following section describes how to build the SDK from source and how to generate projects based on the local build.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have setup and configured Spring Loaded, Maven, JDK, etc, see Alfresco Documentation.

For Maven specific information

Check out the generated Maven Site.

Building from Source

Get the SDK source:

$ git clone https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-sdk.git

Step into the parent SDK project:

$ cd alfresco-sdk

Build the SDK and skip tests (skipping tests is useful if you don't have access to Enterprise artifacts):

alfresco-sdk$ mvn clean install -Dmaven.test.skip=true

Generating an extension project from the local build

$ mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local

This project is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0. It's a community driven project which is supported for Alfresco Development (please refere to the official Alfresco Documentation for supported features.