CDF is a Dashboard framework that allows custom dashboards to be built
CDF is one of the tools of the CTools family and it is shipped within Pentaho BA Server
This is a maven project, and to build it use the following command
mvn clean install
The build result will be a Pentaho Plugin located in assemblies/cdf/target/pentaho-cdf-**.zip. Then, this package can be dropped inside your system folder.
Additionally, CDF build environment requires some configuration on your maven settings.xml file. The file is located under your .m2 directory on your home folder. Please make sure the following configuration is added:
<!-- profiles -->
<profile>
<id>pentaho</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>pentaho-nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Internal</name>
<url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>pentaho-nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Internal</name>
<url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
<!-- mirrors -->
<mirror>
<id>pentaho-internal-repository</id>
<url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni</url>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
If you don't already have a settings.xml file on that location, this is a stock one you can use:
<settings xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/SETTINGS/1.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/settings-1.0.0.xsd">
<localRepository/>
<interactiveMode/>
<usePluginRegistry/>
<offline/>
<pluginGroups/>
<servers/>
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>pentaho-internal-repository</id>
<url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni</url>
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
<proxies/>
<profiles>
<profile>
<id>pentaho</id>
<activation>
<activeByDefault>true</activeByDefault>
</activation>
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>pentaho-nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Internal</name>
<url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni</url>
</repository>
</repositories>
<pluginRepositories>
<pluginRepository>
<id>pentaho-nexus</id>
<name>Nexus Internal</name>
<url>http://nexus.pentaho.org/content/groups/omni</url>
</pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
</profile>
</profiles>
<activeProfiles/>
</settings>
For issue tracking and bug report please use http://jira.pentaho.com/browse/CDF. Its master branch is built upon commit merges in Jenkins Continuous Integration located in http://ci.pentaho.com/job/cdf-plugin/