First things first, you will need to have subversion installed on your local machine. You can get it from the Subversion site. Then create a directory in which to work. I've created the directory 'C:\iBatis' as an example.

Next step is to check out the latest code from the respository:

At this point you should have the entire directory structure starting with trunk in your working directory.

You are now in the build directory. There are multiple scripts in this directory for building ibatis.

Building with Java 1.5 You will need to obtain an implementation of xalan. I would suggest downloading the version from http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/. Copy the xalan.jar and serializer.jar files into the trunk\java\mapper\mapper2\devlib directory.

Now just run ant to do the build:

We choose here to build 'all', but you can run different targets by passing the name to the ant command. 'ant -p' will tell you targets that are available. For example, to run the 'clean' target, you would do this:

You get the picture

Have fun!