Quick Install

The fastest and easiest way to install Forge on any operating system is through the use of JBoss Tools or JBoss Developer Studio , where Forge comes pre-installed and makes use of IDE GUI integration. Alternatively, on OSX, you can also use Homebrew to install Forge natively for use on the command-line, via "brew install jboss-forge".

1. Ensure that you have already installed a Java 6+ JDK.
2. Download and Un-zip Forge (or a recent snapshot build ) into a folder on your hard-disk, this folder will be your FORGE_HOME
3. Add '$FORGE_HOME/bin' to your path ( windows , linux , mac osx )
4. * Consider installing Git and Maven 3.0+ (both optional)
5. Open a command prompt and run 'forge' (if you are on Windows, you will need to run forge.bat unless using a Unix-style terminal)

Latest News

• Forge 1.3.0.Final Released

  2013-5-15: George Gastaldi

  JBoss Forge 1.3.0.Final is now available for download ! It is with great pleasure that we announce that JBoss Forge 1.3.0.Final is now available. Why the minor update ? Check it out. New and Noteworthy Scaffold-x plugin: We have taken the Scaffold plugin to another level. This plugin was designed from ground up...

• Forge 1.2.3.Final Released

  2013-4-10: George Gastaldi

  JBoss Forge 1.2.3.Final is now available for download ! Release Notes Bug [FORGE-830] – RestPlugin should throw IllegalArgumentException if no domain entity is provided [FORGE-849] – Forge update asks to...

• Forge Update Issue

  2013-4-8: George Gastaldi

  Forge Update issue We have recently discovered an issue with the forge update command that allows people to update to non-final and unstable versions. This is fixed in 1.2.3.Final, so we kindly ask you to avoid using “forge update” on previous versions since it will prompt you to update to Forge 2.0.0.Alpha versions...

• Update your maven dependencies automatically

  2013-3-8: George Gastaldi

  Update your maven dependencies automatically New versions of software are released every day, and it is hard to keep your project up-to-date with the latest version of a dependency declared in your pom.xml Fortunately, in 1.2.2.Final, JBoss Forge provides a new command to make things easier: maven update This command will scan each dependency...

• Forge 1.2.2.Final Released

  2013-3-8: George Gastaldi

  JBoss Forge 1.2.2.Final is now available for download ! Release Notes Bug [FORGE-725] – Tests Failing on Windows 7 [FORGE-787] – Forge update is not working correctly in Windows [FORGE-799] –...

• Forge 1.2.1.Final Released

  2013-2-15: George Gastaldi

  JBoss Forge 1.2.1.Final is now available for download ! Release Notes Bug [FORGE-745] – Can not use Java Parser in war deployment on AS7 [FORGE-751] – MavenDependencyFacet cause ConcurrentModificationException [FORGE-752] –...

• Forge 1.2.0.Final Released

  2013-1-15: Lincoln Baxter, III

  JBoss Forge 1.2.0.Final is now available for download ! Release Notes Bug [FORGE-621] – Support Weblogic 12c as a container in the Persistence plugin [FORGE-727] – Starting forge with debug...

• Forge 1.1.3.Final Released

  2012-12-14: George Gastaldi

  JBoss Forge 1.1.3.Final is now available for download ! Release Notes Bug [FORGE-704] – org.jboss.forge.parser.java.impl.FieldImpl<O> do not handle byte[] class [FORGE-712] – Forge has trouble finding some Maven Central artifacts [FORGE-713]...

• Forge 1.1.0.Final Released

  2012-9-20: George Gastaldi

  It is with great pleasure that I announce that JBoss Forge 1.1.0.Final has just been released ! This version is loaded with new features (That’s why we decided to change the minor version – :) ). Check out the Full Release Notes or, if you just want to catch up with...

• New Forge Website

  2012-7-25: Paul Bakker, Lincoln Baxter III

  We have a new website, and would like to thank several of our community members for making this possible. Thanks to… Paul Bakker – for getting the initial project started and doing the plugin search pages Ivan St. Ivanov – for migrating the documentation And many more – for their ideas and help over...