BookKeeper installation

You can install BookKeeper either by downloading a GZipped tarball package or cloning the BookKeeper repository.

Requirements

• Unix environment
• Java Development Kit 1.6 or later
• Maven 3.0 or later

Download

You can download Apache BookKeeper releases from one of many Apache mirrors.

Clone

To build BookKeeper from source, clone the repository, either from the GitHub mirror or from the Apache repository:

# From the GitHub mirror
$ git clone https://github.com/apache/bookkeeper

# From Apache directly
$ git clone git://git.apache.org/bookkeeper.git/

Build using Maven

Once you have the BookKeeper on your local machine, either by downloading or cloning it, you can then build BookKeeper from source using Maven:

$ mvn package

You can skip tests by adding the -DskipTests flag when running mvn package.

Useful Maven commands

Some other useful Maven commands beyond mvn package:

Command	Action
mvn clean	Removes build artifacts
mvn compile	Compiles JAR files from Java sources
mvn compile findbugs:findbugs	Compile using the Maven FindBugs plugin
mvn install	Install the BookKeeper JAR locally in your local Maven cache (usually in the ~/.m2 directory)
mvn deploy	Deploy the BookKeeper JAR to the Maven repo (if you have the proper credentials)
mvn verify	Performs a wide variety of verification and validation tasks
mvn apache-rat:check	Run Maven using the Apache Rat plugin
mvn compile javadoc:aggregate	Build Javadocs locally
mvn package assembly:single	Build a complete distribution using the Maven Assembly plugin

Package directory

The BookKeeper project contains several subfolders that you should be aware of:

Subfolder	Contains
bookkeeper-server	The BookKeeper server and client
bookkeeper-benchmark	A benchmarking suite for measuring BookKeeper performance
bookkeeper-stats	A BookKeeper stats library
bookkeeper-stats-providers	BookKeeper stats providers