To build Beehive, you need to have installed JDK 5.0 or later and set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the location of the JDK. Download a JDK here. Beehive also requires Ant for builds and uses Tomcat for testing.

Checkout the Beehive source code using this command:

which will create a beehive/trunk directory that contains the Beehive source from SVN.

To build Beehive, you will need to download a dependency by running ant bootstrap. Then these Ant commands can be used to clean, build, run the tests, and create a distribution:

If you need to use proxies, you can simply download the JSR-173 API package from:

and copy the file into the directory beehive/trunk/installed/jsr173 directory. Then, run