Windows Quickstart: Install Cygwin - http://www.cygwin.com/install.html Install Maven - http://maven.apache.org/download.html Install Java JDK-6 from Oracle Unzip trunk.zip From a cygwin shell, cd to trunk/ and execute build_and_run_arrow.sh This may take 30 to 60 minutes depending on machine and network speeds. At the end of a successful build and start the log will show É INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 Sep 8, 2011 1:31:37 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 Arrow web services will now be available at http://localhost:8080/ArrowWebServices/ More extensive instructions for building the ARRoW environment and running the ARRoW capability are stored in the trunk/docs folder.