software_development

Software Development

This manual is for software developers customizing or developing GeoNetwork:

• GeoNetwork Architecture Overview describing technologies used and application components.

• Development environment:

  • Tools
  • Source code
  • GitHub
  • Building
  • Testing
  • Eclipse IDE
  • IntelliJ IDE.

  See Installing from source code (Maintainer Guide)

• Writing documentation: see Writing documentation (Contributing Guide).

• Release process: See Doing a release (Contributing Guide).

If you just want to use the software and are looking for instructions on how to do that, there is a lot of documentation for users, administrators, metadata editors and application maintainers at: GeoNetwork Documentation.

Quickstart

Get GeoNetwork running - the short path:

git clone --depth 3 --recursive https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork.git
cd core-geonetwork
mvn clean install -DskipTests
cd web
mvn jetty:run

The application is opened on http://localhost:8080/geonetwork