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+# Building digilib with Maven
+
+The easiest way to get the latest and greatest digilib is the [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/) build tool. 
+It will download, compile, and install the latest digilib version and all required libraries.
+
+## What you need
+
+* [Java](http://www.java.com/) (1.5 or higher)
+* [Maven](http://maven.apache.org/)
+* [Mercurial](http://mercurial.selenic.com/)
+* A Servlet container like [Tomcat](http://tomcat.apache.org/) 
+or [Jetty](http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/) to run the web application.
+
+## Quick build
+
+The fastest way to build the digilib web application is to download the digilib 
+project file [pom.xml](http://hg.berlios.de/repos/digilib/raw-file/tip/pom.xml)
+(download and save it) and run
+	
+	mvn scm:bootstrap -N
+
+in the same directory as the `pom.xml` file.
+
+This will create a web application directory `digilib-webapp-2.2-SNAPSHOT` 
+and a WAR file `digilib-webapp-2.2-SNAPSHOT-srv3.war` (or similar) 
+in the subdirectory `target/checkout/webapp/target/`
+
+Digilib uses the Asynchronous Servlet API (3.0) by default. You will need Java version 6 
+and Tomcat version 7 or Jetty version 8 or later to use it.
+If you want to use the old non-Asynchronous Servlet API (2.3) add `-Pservlet2`
+to the Maven command line above.
+
+## Developer build
+
+If you are developing with digilib it is helpful to check out the source
+code separately so you can keep it around, modify it or change the configuration
+before you deploy.
+
+To check out the latest source code into the directory `digilib` run
+	
+	hg clone http://hg.berlios.de/repos/digilib
+
+The digilib configuration files are now in `digilib/webapp/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/`
+
+If you want to update your copy of digilib to the latest version at some time in the future 
+just run
+
+	hg pull
+	hg up
+	
+in the `digilib` directory.
+
+To build the resulting source code, change into the `digilib`
+directory you checked out above and run
+
+	mvn package
+
+This will create a web application directory `digilib-webapp-2.2-SNAPSHOT`
+and a WAR file `digilib-webapp-2.2-SNAPSHOT-srv3.war` (or similar) in
+the subdirectory `webapp/target/` .
+
+Digilib uses the Asynchronous Servlet API (3.0) by default. You will need Java version 6 
+and Tomcat version 7 or Jetty version 8 or later to use it.
+If you want to use the old non-Asynchronous Servlet API (2.3) add `-Pservlet2`
+to the Maven command line above.
+
+## Deploying the web application by hand
+
+To deploy digilib just copy the web application directory into the `webapp`
+directory of the Servlet container.
+
+Since the URL of your digilib server starts with the name of the web application
+and the name of the web application is derived from the name of the web
+application directory **please rename the web application directory to `digitallibrary` 
+before you start**
+
+Then you should see your digilib running at the URL 
+[http://localhost:8080/digitallibrary/jquery/digilib.html](http://localhost:8080/digitallibrary/jquery/digilib.html)
+
+## Configuring digilib
+
+To change the configuration of digilib just edit the file `digilib-config.xml`
+in the web application directory (`digitallibrary/WEB-INF/digilib-config.xml`).
+Documentation of the configuration options is [here](digilib-config.html).
+
+You can see a summary of your running digilib configuration at the URL 
+[http://localhost:8080/digitallibrary/server/dlConfig.jsp](http://localhost:8080/digitallibrary/server/dlConfig.jsp)
+