Apache Commons Transaction =========================== Welcome to the Transaction component of the Apache Commons project. This component contains implementations of utility classes commonly used in transactional Java programming. Initially there are implementations for multi level locks, transactional collections and transactional file access. Building from source -------------------- This component requires the excellent Ant utility. It can be found here : http://ant.apache.org/ Once you have Ant propertly installed you are ready to build and test. All necessary jars are already present and you will only have to create a build.properties from build.properties.sample if you want to compile to other versions. The major ant targets are: ant build - Compiles the main classes ant jar - Creates the jar ant test - Exectutes JUnit tests ant doc - Generates documentation ant javadocs - Creates the API documentation ant dist - Creates distribution ant package - Packages distribution ant - Creates jar Maven ----- The component can also be built using Maven. (Ant is the primary build tool.) It can be found here : http://maven.apache.org/ Once installed, the jars may be built with 'maven jar'.