Before you can install ActiveBPEL engine, you need to install a servlet container. According to the documentation, ActiveBPEL engine has been tested with Apache Tomcat 5.x. The following sections discuss how to install Apache Tomcat 5.5 on Windows and on Linux.
Note
For details concerning installing Apache Tomcat 5.5 for running on different platforms, you can refer to http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/setup.html.
Here are the steps for installing Tomcat 5.5 on Windows:
Download Apache Tomcat 5.5 from
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi, picking up theapache‑tomcat-5.5.xx.exefile from the Binary Distribution/Core section.Run the downloaded
apache-tomcat-5.5.xx.exeto launch the Installation Wizard.In the Choose Components dialog, make sure that the Normal installation option is selected, and click Next.
In the Configuration dialog, you may need to change the value of the HTTP 1.1/Connector Port, set by default to 8080. For example, if you have an Oracle database installed on your machine, Oracle XML DB HTTP server may already use port 8080. So, you may choose 8081 for the Tomcat server port. In this page, also make sure to specify the password for the Administrator user.
In the next dialog, you have to specify the path to the J2SE 5 JRE installed on your computer, and click Install.
After the above steps are completed, you will have the Tomcat server installed in your system as a Windows service.
Here are the steps for installing Tomcat 5.5 on Linux:
Get the binary distribution of Apache Tomcat 5.5 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi. In particular, you will need the
Core tar.gzpackage.Unzip the package as follows:
# tar -xzf apache-tomcat-5.5.xx.tar.gz
Create a simlink to the Tomcat directory:
# ln -s apache-tomcat-5.5.xx tomcat
Note
Before you can run Tomcat, you should have the CATALINA_HOME environment variable set to the directory in which you installed Tomcat, say, /opt/tomcat, and JAVA_HOME set to the base path of the JDK installed in your system.
If you need to change the Tomcat port set by default to
8080, open theCATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xmlconfiguration file and set theportattribute of theConnectorelement to an appropriate value, say8081.To start Tomcat, you should run the following script:
# $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
After performing these steps, you should have the Tomcat 5.5 servlet container installed and configured on your machine.