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Building and deploying

Maven is the main tool for building and deploying a complete application. It takes care of:

  • building the java libraries and webapp(s)
  • calling NPM as needed to take care of the frontend builds
  • launching both backend and frontend test suites
  • creating the final war for deploy into a J2EE container (e.g. Tomcat)

To create the final war, you have several options:

  • full build, including submodules and frontend (e.g. GeoStore)

./build.sh [version_identifier] [profiles]

Where version_identifier is an optional identifier of the generated war that will be shown in the settings panel of the application and profiles is an optional list of comma delimited building profiles (e.g. printing, ldap)

  • fast build (will use the last compiled version of submodules and compiled frontend)

mvn clean install -Dmapstore2.version=[version_identifier] [profiles]

  • release build (produces also the binary)

mvn clean install -Dmapstore2.version=[version_identifier] -Prelease

Building the documentation

MapStore uses JSDoc to annotate the components, so the documentation can be automatically generated using docma. Please see http://usejsdoc.org/ for further information about code documentation.

Refer to the existing files to follow the documentation style:

To install docma:

npm install -g docma

While developing you can generate the documentation to be accessible in the local machine by:

npm run doctest

The resulting doc will be accessible from http://localhost:8081/mapstore/docs/

For the production deploy a different npm task must be used:

npm run doc

The documentation will be accessible from the /mapstore/docs/ path

The generated folders can be removed with:

npm run cleandoc

Understanding frontend building tools

Frontend building is delegated to NPM and so leverages the NodeJS ecosystem.

In particular:

Index of main npm scripts

Command Description
npm install download dependencies and init developer environment
npm start start development instance
npm run compile run single build / bundling
npm test run test suite once
npm run continuoustest run continuous test suite running (useful during developing)
npm run lint run ESLint checks
npm run mvntest run tests from Maven
npm run travis run the test build used for travis

Including the printing engine in your build

The printing module is not included in official builds by default.

To build your own version of MapStore with the this module, you can use the printing profile running the build script:

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./build.sh [version_identifier] printing

For more information or troubleshooting about the printing module you can see the dedicated section