To build the acopbeans library one needs only access the desy SVN and a proper java IDE tool (eclipse is preferred; the instructions below are written for eclipse).
To build tine applications distribution one needs access to SVN, a proper java IDE tool (eclipse if preferred) and ant installed on the local machine. If you don't have ant installed, you can get it here. Unpack the content of the downloaded archive file than at its bin folder to you path and add a user variable called JAVA_HOME, which points to where your java is installed (e.g. C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_17).