You need to have maven2 installed to build this project, see: http://maven.apache.org/ Prior to running this as a maven build you need to have compiled and installed the java-ref-impl into your local maven repository. This is done by downloading and unpack java-ref-impl found at openehr.org. Then go in to the unpacked root directory and type: mvn clean install The procedure above should only need to be done once. Then in order to build LiU-EHR-GUI you enter it's root directory (probably the one that contains this readme file) and type: mvn clean install Now if everything worked, the LiU-EHR-GUI is installed into your local maven repository.