As mentioned, you need to have a servlet container installed and properly configured before you can install the ActiveBPEL engine. The next steps assume that you have installed and configured Tomcat 5.x as discussed in the preceding sections.
Note
For detailed information on how to install the ActiveBPEL engine, you can refer to http://www.active-endpoints.com/installation-guide.htm.
To download the ActiveBPEL engine, you can start with the home page of the Active Endpoints website at http://www.active-endpoints.com/. In this page, click the ActiveBPEL Open Source Engine link under the free downloads section. As a result, you will be taken to the Download Terms and Conditions page, where you should examine Terms of Use. If you select Accept and then click the Submit button, you will be directed to the ActiveBPEL Engine Download page, on which you can select the latest version of the ActiveBPEL engine and download the ZIP archive.
Extract the distribution from the downloaded archive, putting the files in any directory.
Change the current directory to the one containing the ActiveBPEL engine files extracted in the preceding step, and run the
install.batscript on Windows orinstall.shon Linux. This might look like the following on Windows:
Restart Apache:
# usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
These steps complete the ActiveBPEL engine installation. The ActiveBPEL engine will automatically start with the servlet container.
The install script executed in the penultimate step creates the $CATALINA_HOME/bpr directory to which you will deploy your ActiveBPEL projects as bpr archives, as discussed in Chapter 5.