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Starting from the Scratch
Introduction
Being the leader of a small German company MFP I feel the increasing gap between poor and rich people from the view of being poor. Especially the market of Business Intelligence is dominated by companies with a background of high-price-marketing, closing the doors for small companies with good new ideas but small capital.
Thanks to projects like JasperForge.org there is at least a chance for small companies to help each other and to create markets dominated by good ideas but expensive software. Therefore I try to find my own way into this Business Intelligence environment of Jasper.
I have to learn much, because I am familiar only with developing software based on C++ and C#, using MS Visual Studio and .NET environment. Whenever I have the time, I will synchronize the Wiki of JasperForge.org to my recent knowledge. It may happen, that mistakes will occur or that I spoil the plans of other authors. Please correct me, if I'm creating nonsense.
My first action
The first action here at this Wiki was to install the missing links for Jasper Server installation and source code handling. When doing so, I detected, that the content of the now linked pages is not up to date. But there is too much content and too less know-how from me to make the updates. So I started this discussion page for explaining my actions.
I am now checking out the repository with anonymous/anonymous and it is running now over 1300 MByte, I will see how much it is. I will have to learn first, what is really necessary and what is old stuff. I already made my first mistake by checking out the whole directory. I will never need the branches, only the trunk is necessary. So later, I will delete the branches. Or only the branch of the latest version, if there is such a branch. Meanwhile the download is beyond 1800 MBytes and I have no hint for the end.
Checking out has finished after a lot of hours. It is obviously nonsense to check out the whole repository, because it contains a lot of stuff which is no more needed. It is more than 20 GByte. So I will delete the checked out directory on my computer and I will repeat the checkout after I have learned, what is really necessary.
I downloaded the zipped sources with jasperreports-server-cp-4.2.1-src.zip and I will try to work with this environment.
