SourceCodeAccess
How to download the Open-Xchange Server source code (6.22.0 and later)
Starting with 6.22 the source code of Open-Xchange server is available from our git repository.
The following repositories exist:
| Repository | content |
|---|---|
| wd/backend | the main repository containing most of the parts of Open-Xchange server |
| frontend6 | The AJAX user interface |
GIT operations to access the code
To clone a repository, run
$ git clone http://code.open-xchange.com/git/<repository>
Our release branches are named release-<releasenumber>
How to download the Open-Xchange Server source code (6.20.7 and earlier)
The source code of Open-Xchange Server is available using cvs access and source packages. Please make sure to use an up-to-date CVS client (cvs > 1.12) to check out the repositories. Integrated CVS clients e.g. for current Eclipse version work well, too.
The currently maintained cvs repositories
| Repository | content |
|---|---|
| open-xchange | the main repository containing most of the parts of Open-Xchange server |
| open-xchange-gui | The AJAX user interface |
| open-xchange-admin | the Open-Xchange admin daemon used for provisioning (user creation, etc.) |
| open-xchange-admin-plugin-hosting | contains the commandline tools and the oxinstaller |
| open-xchange-admin-soap | SOAP interface |
CVS operations to access the code
To see a complete list of Open-Xchange cvs repositories, run the following command:
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.open-xchange.com:/cvsroot rls
Note, however, that only the repositories as listed above are actively maintained.
To check out a repository, run
$ cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@www.open-xchange.com:/cvsroot co open-xchange/com.openexchange.authentication.ldap
to check out the ldap authentication plugin.
Organization of the open-xchange repository
The open-xchange repository contains several OSGi bundles which are the building block of the Open-Xchange server package. Each of them has an ant build.xml file containing a target to create a source tarball and a subdirectory called packaging which contains the package metadata to build DEB and RPM packages.