Before starting with the descriptions of each specific component, I would like to mention the fact that in order to install and use the tooling, we need to have basic knowledge of how to work with Java. The installation procedure requires us to know some tools that are commonly used in the Java environment, and for that reason the method of installing those tools is out of the scope of this section. The prerequisites for working with all of the tooling projects provided by jBPM5 and Drools are as follows:
JDK 6, which can be found at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
Apache Ant 1.8.X, which can be found at http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
JAVA_HOME
and<ANT_HOME>/bin
added to thePATH
system variable
Once we have these tools installed and ready to be used, we will download the jBPM5 installer that will help us to download all of the different projects, plugins, and configurations that we need to start using these tools. This...