Installation

The VO-DML tooling is based around gradle (currently version 8) which itself is based on Java. It is recommended that a minimum of JDK 17 is installed using a package manager for your OS and similarly use a package manager for gradle installation. Although if you are working with a repository that already has a gradelw file at the top level, then that can be used in place of the gradle command, and it will handle the downloading and running of the correct gradle version.

The functionality of the tooling is then encapsulated with a gradle plugin which is configured in the quickstart instructions

Note the documentation tasks of the tools that produce the overall model diagram also require that graphviz be installed.

If full documentation site generation is required then mkdocs material theme is needed as an external installation dependency along with yq that can be used to automate the mkdocs navigation menu creation.