Infinispan Data Grid Platform Definitive Guide

Building Infinispan from source

Infinispan uses Maven as a build tool. The following steps describe the sequence of tasks to build Infinispan from the source code:

1. You will need a copy of the Infinispan sources, which can be downloaded from Github, but it's important to note that the git version of Infinispan might contain unreleased and unstable changes, it's intended for developers and contributors.
2. To get the source from Github, first of all, you must have a git client to clone the repository. To clone the Infinispan from Github, you can execute the following command:

   git clone https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan.git
   

3. If everything went well, you should see a new folder called Infinispan with the following folder structure:
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