Getting Started

This page contains most of the information you'll need to get started with Tungsten Commons.

Prerequisites

Tungsten Commons requires Sun JDK 1.5 or higher to run. To build source you will also require Apache Ant 1.7.0 or greater.

Downloads

Builds are posted on SourceForge.net on the Tungsten downloads page.  If you are using Tungsten Commons as a prerequisite for other Tungsten projects, you will need to download source.   Tungsten Commons are very easy to build and we recommend this approach rather than using the binary builds, which are not guaranteed to be up-to-date or compatible with requirements of other projects.

Source Code

Tungsten Commons source code is maintained in SVN on SourceForge.net. It can be checked out using the following command:

svn co https://tungsten.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/tungsten/trunk/commons commons


To check in code you must have a SourceForge.net login and be admitted to the project.

Mailing Lists

Tungsten Commons shares mailing lists with all other Tungsten projects. Check the Tungsten mailing lists page on SourceForge.net to sign up or get access.

Setting Up Tungsten Commons

Tungsten Commons is a library as opposed to a network service or similar product.  Tungsten Commons is fully self-contained, so there is no setup required.  To figure out how to use Tungsten Commons, consult the API documentation and look at the unit tests.  These give reasonable usages examples that you can use to start creating your own applications.

Bug Reports

View and report bugs in the JIRA.

Licensing and Code Contributions

Please see our Licensing page for information about software licenses and making contributions.