Required Jars for Roller Webapp

Instructions apply to: Roller 2.3 and 3.x releases

Here you'll find the missing HIbernate and other jars that you need to run Roller. Why? Due to licensing restrictions, Roller does not include the Hibernate jars required to run Roller. The Roller installation guide explains how to get these jars from the Hibernate web site, but that is a little inconvenient. So, to make Roller installation a little easier, we've packaged up the Hibernate and other jars required to run Roller and made them easily available here, with instructions.

How to install the Required Jars for Roller Webapp

1. First, download the Roller Webapp release apache-roller-X.Y-incubating.tar.gz from the Roller project download page
2. And follow the instructions in the Roller Installation Guide to install Roller
3. When you get to Step 3.1 "Download and install Hibernate" stop -- instead of going to the Hibernate site download required-jars-roller-webapp-X.Y.tar.gz from the (Roller Support project download page)
4. Extract the file required-jars-roller-webapp-X.Y.tar.gz into the Roller installation directory [1]
5. Procede with the installation

[1] Here's an example of how you would extract the files on a UNIX system where Roller is installed into /usr/local/roller

   % cp required-jars-roller-webapp-X.Y.tar.gz /usr/local/roller
   % cd /usr/local/roller
   % tar xzvf required-jars-roller-webapp-X.Y.tar.gz