CUBA Platform is a high level framework for rapid development of enterprise applications with rich web interface.

The simplest way to start using the platform is to download CUBA Studio and create a new project in it. A released version of the platform will be downloaded automatically from the artifact repository.

You can also build a snapshot version of the platform from the source code and use it in your project.

In order to build the platform from source, you need to install the following:

• Java 8 Development Kit (JDK)
• Gradle (tested on 2.13, but newer versions may also work)
• CUBA Gradle Plugin

Let's assume that you have cloned CUBA Gradle Plugin and CUBA into the following directories:

work/
    cuba/
    cuba-gradle-plugin/

Open terminal in the work directory and run the following command to build and install the plugin into your local Maven repository (~/.m2):

cd cuba-gradle-plugin
gradle install

After that, go to the CUBA directory and build and install it with the same command:

cd ../cuba
gradle install

Edit the build.gradle file of your project. Change the ext.cubaVersion property and add mavenLocal() to the repositories section, for example:

buildscript {
    ext.cubaVersion = '6.2-SNAPSHOT'
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        maven { ...

That's all. Now you can generate IDE project files and build and deploy your application based on the snapshot version of the platform from your local repository:

gradle idea
gradle deploy

The platform uses a number of forked third-party libraries. They can be found in the following source code repositories:

• eclipselink
• vaadin
• vaadin-dragdroplayouts
• vaadin-googlemaps
• vaadin-aceeditor
• swingx-core
• apache-poi

All dependencies are also located in our artifacts repository, so you don't have to build them from sources in order to build and use the platform.