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The latest release version of Plover is 0.2.0.

Plover is available for download as binary and source distributions. The documentation for the software is available as a separate package and is not part of the binary or source distributions.

You can download the latest and past releases of these distributions from SF.NET download page.

See the included LICENSE.TXT file to be aware of the LGPL license terms and conditions.

Building from Source

For building Plover you need the Jakarta Ant build tool (version 1.6.2 and higher). You can download Ant from the Jakarta site (http://jakarta.apache.org). You will also need the Java Servlet API package of version 2.0 and above to build Plover from source. The API package is available from the JavaSoft website (http://java.sun.com).

Extract the contents of the Plover source distribution into a suitable temporary location.

The build folder contains the Ant build script and associated configuration information.
The lib folder contains all third-party libraries that are required as accessories to Plover, for building from source and copied as part of the final release.
The sources folder forms the root of the Java source tree.

Download the binary distribution of Ant from the Jakarta website. Follow the installation instructions that is available as part of the distribution and have Ant properly installed. We will assume that you are using the bootstrap feature of Ant. We will also assume that the shell scripts folder for Ant is on the PATH environmental variable under windows.

Download the Servlet API binaries from the Javasoft website. Modify the Ant configuration to have these binaries available in the runtime classpath.

Use the build.xml file to perform the build. The release folder (if it does not exist) gets created as part of the build process. The output of the build goes to this release folder.

As a result of the build operation, two additional folders gets created under the release folder.

The hosting folder contains all the jar files that are required to setup and instantiate a server-side hosting environment; from within an application, or from within a servlet container.
The invoker folder contains all the jar files that are required to configure and perform invocations from within a client application.
The javadoc folder contains the generated documentation in Javadoc HTML format for all Plover classes.