To develop it locally, you need to setup your maven environment.
That's the easy part, you just need to download the Maven binaries and extract it somewhere, then put the maven/bin folder on your PATH.
https://maven.apache.org/install.html
Don't forget to configure your JAVA_HOME environment variable.
The library uses OJDBC Driver to connect to the database, it's added as a maven dependency. To be able to download the Oracle dependencies, you need to configure your access to Oracle's Maven Repository:
http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/core/MAVEN/config_maven_repo.htm#MAVEN9010
Sections 6.1 and 6.5 are the more important ones, and the only ones you need if you're using the latest Maven version.
To usefully contribute you'll have to setup a local database with installed latest utPLSQL v3 and utPLSQL-demo-project. The demo-project will serve as your test user. See .travis.yml to see an example on how it can be installed.
utPLSQL-java-api comes with a preconfigured profile "utPLSQL-local". This profile uses properties to set the correct environment variables for DB_URL, DB_USER and DB_PASS which is needed to run the integration tests. You can set these properties by adding the following to your Maven settings.xml:
<settings>
<!-- ... -->
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>utPLSQL-local</id>
<properties>
<dbUrl>localhost:1521/XE</dbUrl>
<dbUser>app</dbUser>
<dbPass>app</dbPass>
</properties>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles>
<activeProfile>utPLSQL-local</activeProfile>
</activeProfiles>
</settings>After configuring your access to Oracle's Maven repository, you will be able to successfully build this API.
cd utPLSQL-java-api
mvn clean package installIf you want to skip the local database part, just run mvn clean package install -DskipTests.
You will still be able to run mvn test because integration tests are run in the verify-phase.