Hello all,

as part of my induction I built JIRA from source and encountered some difficulties that could be avoided with minor documentation correction:

1. Page http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/docs/v3.13.2/building.html should link to http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/Atlassian+Maven+Repositories when describing how to configure the maven2 repos.

2. The page itself should point out how to install non re-distributable dependencies and get the environment ready before attempting a build. I've found "mail", "activation" and "transaction" APIs sufficient. The following commands should save users from 3 failed attempts:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=javax.mail -DartifactId=mail -Dversion=1.3.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=$HOME/Downloads/mail-1.3.2.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=javax.activation -DartifactId=activation -Dversion=1.0.2 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=$HOME/Downloads/activation-1.0.2.jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=javax.transaction -DartifactId=jta -Dversion=1.0.1B -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=$HOME/Downloads/jta-1_0_1B-classes.zip

cheers,
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