The current OSWorkflow version, 2.8, requires a Java VM version 1.3 or higher. You can download binaries and sources from the OSWorkflow page at http://www.opensymphony.com/osworkflow/. To use the software, you must unpack the files using any compression utility like 7-Zip.
In the binary version you already have everything you need to run, on the other hand, the source code distribution must be compiled using the Jakarta Ant utility.
The OSWorkflow distribution comes with a sample web application useful for testing workflow definitions. This test application is packed as a WAR file, called osworkflow-2.8.0-example.war
. In order to deploy it, you will need to install a web container such as Jakarta Tomcat.
You can download Tomcat from http://tomcat.apache.org. After downloading, unpack the distribution to a directory, and copy the osworkflow-2.8.0-example.war
file into the webapps
directory inside the root directory...