Apache Commons Collections =========================== Welcome to the Collections component of the Apache Commons project. This component contains many new collections and collection utilities. Two jar files (apart from sources and javadocs) are produced by this component. The first, commons-collections4-x.y.jar is the main jar used by applications. The second, commons-collections4-x.y-tests.jar is an extension to junit for testing new collection implementations and is not normally used by applications. Building from source =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Maven2 ------ Collections is usually built using Maven2. It can be found here : http://maven.apache.org/ Once installed, the major goals are: mvn package - build jars mvn install - place jars in local maven repository mvn assembly:assembly - build tar.gz/zips Ant --- It may also be built using Ant. It can be found here : http://ant.apache.org/ For testing the project, you will also need JUnit : http://www.junit.org/ To let the test process find JUnit, you may make a copy of the build.properties.sample file, rename to build.properties, and modify to reflect the location of the junit.jar on your computer. Once you have Ant properly installed, and the build.properties file correctly reflects the location of your junit.jar, you are ready to build and test. The major targets are: ant compile - compile the code ant test - test using junit ant jar - create a jar file ant test-jar - create the testframework jar file ant javadoc - build the javadoc ant dist - create folders as per a distribution