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Drools now comes with an installer.
This script assumes you have Java JDK 1.5+ (set as JAVA_HOME), and Ant 1.7+ installed. If you don't, use the following links to download and install them:
First of all, you need to download the installer: drools-{version}-install.zip
You can for example find the latest snapshot release here.
http://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/drools/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/trunk/target/
The easiest way to get started is to simply run the installation script to install the demo setup. Simply go into the install folder and run:
ant install.demo
This will:
Once the demo setup has finished (this could take a while as it might have to download the various components), you can start playing with the various components by starting the demo setup:
ant start.demo
This will:
Once everything is started, you can start playing with the Eclipse tooling, Guvnor and gwt-console, as explained in the next three sections.
The following screencast gives an overview of how to run a simple demo process in Eclipse. It shows you:
If you want to know more, we recommend you take a look at the rest of the Drools documentation.
Open up Drools Guvnor:
http://localhost:8080/drools-guvnor
Log in, using any non-empty username / password (we disabled authentication for demo purposes). The following screencast gives an overview of how to manage your repository. It shows you:
If you want to know more, we recommend you take a look at the rest of the Drools documentation.
First make sure you have imported the sample repository and built the defaultPackage in Guvnor first (see previous section). Open up the process management console:
http://localhost:8080/gwt-console
Log in, using krisv / krisv as username / password. The following screencast gives an overview of how to manage your process instances. It shows you:
If you want to know more, we recommend you take a look at the rest of the Drools documentation.
Once you're done playing:
ant stop.demo
and simply close all the rest.