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/javase/downloads/index.html
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>/binadded to thePATHsystem 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...