Ensure you have JDK 17 (or newer) and Git installed
java -version
git --version
Instead of using a locally installed Maven, call the Maven wrapper script mvnw
in the main folder of the project.
This will use the Maven version which is supported by this project.
First clone the Keycloak repository:
git clone https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak.git
cd keycloak
To build Keycloak run:
./mvnw clean install
This will build all modules and run the testsuite.
To build Keycloak with adapters run:
./mvnw clean install -Pdistribution
To build only the server run:
./mvnw -pl quarkus/deployment,quarkus/dist -am -DskipTests clean install
You can then find the ZIP distribution in quarkus/dist/target
folder.
NOTE
Classes from org.keycloak.testsuite.*
packages aren't suitable to be used in production.
This project contains opt-in support for incremental Maven builds using the Apache Maven Build Cache Extension which is disabled by default.
To enable it for a single Maven command execution, enable it as follows:
./mvnw -D -Dmaven.build.cache.enabled=true ...
To enable it by default, add it to the MAVEN_OPTS
environment variable:
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Dmaven.build.cache.enabled=true"
To start Keycloak during development first build as specified above, then run:
java -jar quarkus/server/target/lib/quarkus-run.jar start-dev
To stop the server press Ctrl + C
.
For more details, follow the quarkus
module documentation.
We don't currently enforce a code style in Keycloak, but a good reference is the code style used by WildFly. This can be retrieved from Wildfly ide-configs.To import formatting rules, see following instructions.
If your changes require updates to the database read Updating Database Schema.
If your changes require introducing new dependencies or updating dependency versions please discuss this first on the dev mailing list. We do not accept new dependencies to be added lightly, so try to use what is available.
Some parts of the project rely on generated code using Maven plugins. These steps might be skipped when building using
IDE resulting in compilation errors. To work around this make sure to build the project first using Maven. After the
initial build with Maven you should be able to build the project using the IDE as it will use the classes previously
generated by Maven plugins. Make sure you don't rebuild the whole project using the IDE as it would delete the generated
classes. E.g. in IntelliJ IDEA use Build → Build Project
instead of Build → Rebuild Project
.
NOTE
If you are building the Operator from your IDE, make sure to build the project with the operator
profile enabled in Maven
as it's excluded by default:
./mvnw clean install -Poperator -DskipTests