Protege5DevDocs

Protege Desktop 5.x Developer Documentation

This page is a top-level entry point for all developer documentation related to the Protege Desktop application, versions 5.0 and above.

Building from source

Details the steps necessary to download the Protege Desktop source code, and build a distribution from those sources.

To follow this step-by-step guide, you must have Maven and Git installed.

• Checkout the Protege Desktop source code, i.e., "git clone https://github.com/protegeproject/protege.git protege".
• Change into the protege directory.
• Type mvn clean install.

Once the build completes, a usable Protege Desktop installation will have been created in:

protege/protege-distribution/target/protege-distribution-${version}-bin/Protege

Use the run.bat or run.sh scripts to launch Protege Desktop.

Building with Eclipse and other IDEs

We would welcome contributions from the community for setting up development environments other than Eclipse.

• Building with Eclipse

Client-server

• Setting up a development environment for the OWL Ontology Server