Build tools
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Everything to build version 2.2 of gvSIG was based on Maven. This tool is the official build tool of the project.

..  tip::
    It is recommended to read the Maven documentation in the gvSIG 2.0 *developer guide*, `section on "Maven"`_ where one can find a brief description as well as useful links to resources related to Maven.

Having adopted Maven has been great for the dependencies management and brought a series of best practices into the development process.

You can compile and deploy the project from command line without being bound to a particular *integrated development environment (IDE)*.

It is therefore important to know at least some minimal Maven functionality to develop around gvSIG.

Both *Netbeans* and *Eclipse* can be used for the development.

.. _section on "Maven": http://docs.gvsig.org/web/reference_catalog/lookupObject?uuid=b86adfa812c5996040df3badd7343c86