Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
What you need to start a jBPM6
environment
Before we start with the descriptions of each specific component, I would like to mention
that in order to install and use the workbench, we need to have the basic knowledge of how
to work with Java and Maven. The installation procedure is very simple, but we need to
have a set of tools previously installed in our environment to be able to install and run the
KIE workbench. The prerequisites are the following:
• JDK 6 or higher, which can be found at
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/
• Apache Ant 1.9.x, which can be found at
http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
• Apache Maven 3.1.x, which can be found at
http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
•
<JAVA_HOME>/bin
,
<M2_HOME>/bin
, and
<ANT_HOME>/bin
added to the
PATH
system variable
Once we have these tools installed and ready to be used, we can run the KIE Workbench
installer that you can find in the code section under the name
kie-wb-installer
. This
section will cover the following topics:
• Installing the KIE Workbench
• What you will need to create the jBPM6 business processes
• What you will need to run the jBPM6 business processes
