This manual is for developers customizing or developing GeoNetwork:

• Overview describing architecture, technologies, and libraries used.

• Development environment:

  • Tools
  • Source code
  • GitHub
  • Building
  • Testing
  • Eclipse IDE
  • IntelliJ IDE.

  See Installing from source code (Installation Guide)

• Writing documentation: see Documentation Guide (Contributing Guide).

• Writing documentation: see Documentation Guide (Contributing Guide).

• Release process: See Doing a release (Contributing Guide).

If you just want to use the software and are looking for instructions on how to do that, there is a lot of documentation for users, administrators, metadata editors and application maintainers at: GeoNetwork Documentation.

Get GeoNetwork running - the short path:

1. Build:

   git clone --depth 3 --recursive https://github.com/geonetwork/core-geonetwork.git
   cd core-geonetwork
   mvn clean install -DskipTests
   

2. Elasticsearch:

   cd es
   mvn install -Pes-download
   mvn exec:exec -Des-start
   

3. GeoNetwork web application:

   cd web
   mvn jetty:run
   

4. The application is opened on http://localhost:8080/geonetwork