4. Build tools

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.