#VRaptor 4

A web MVC action-based framework, on top of CDI, for fast and maintainable Java development.

##Downloading directly or using it through Maven

For a quick start, you can use this snippet in your maven POM:

<dependency>
    <groupId>br.com.caelum</groupId>
    <artifactId>vraptor</artifactId>
    <version>4.2.0-RC1</version> <!--or the latest version-->
</dependency>

Or you can download it directly at our artifacts repository.

More detailed prerequisites and dependencies can be found here.

##Documentation More detailed documentation and Javadoc are also available at VRaptor's website.

Looking for more? Take a look at our articles and presentations' page.

##Building in your machine

If you want to build VRaptor, execute:

mvn package

VRaptor uses Maven as build tool. So you can easily import it into your favorite IDE. In Eclipse you can import as "Maven project".

##Contribute to VRaptor

Do you want to contribute with code, documentation or bug report?

You can find guidelines to contribute to VRaptor here.

Compatibility checks

You can check compatibility with previous versions of vraptor-core by running:

mvn clirr:clirr

A full report will be generated at target/site/clirr-report.html file.