Installation

Java API

Cargo offers primarily a Java API. It is meant to be embedded in your application. You'll need Java SE version 5 or greater.

You have two choices to pick from the Downloads page:

• the cargo-core-api-* jars and the container implementations you wish to use (cargo-core-container-* jars)
• or the cargo-core-uberjar jar which aggregates all the required jars

CARGO's base dependencies are as follows:

• Ant 1.5.4 or greater.
• Commons discovery 0.4 or greater.
• Commong logging 1.1 or greater.

If you want to deploy datasources (database, resources, etc.) with CARGO, you also need:

• dom4j 1.4 or greater.

In the case you're running on Java 5, you will also need Xerces 2.4.0 or greater.

Ant

If you want use the Cargo Ant tasks, add the following JARs to ANT's classpath:

• The same jars as for the Java API (i.e., either the API JARs + the container(s) or the uberjar)
• The cargo-ant JAR, containing the <taskdef> definition (see the Ant support page)

Maven2

Maven2 will automatically download all required dependencies: see the Maven2 plugin page. As a result, no installation is required for Maven2.

Maven1

To use the Cargo plugin for Maven1 (the old Maven) you'll need to install it (see the Maven1 plugin page).