How to run the jbpm installer from source?

[badtea]

I am trying to run the JBPM installer from source (version 6.1.0.Final).  Here are the steps I am doing:

1. Clone the jbpm repository
2. Open a command-line
3. Go into the jbpm/jbpm-installer directory
4. Run "ant install.demo"

The build fails because it is trying to download certain files into the lib folder before it does the install.  In particular, it cannot perform these build targets, because the files do not exist on the internet:

• ant download.jBPM.bin
• ant download.dashboard

The output from ant is below.

If I download the full installer from Sourceforge, unzip it, and drop the required files into the lib folder, then I can run the install.  But I shouldn't have to unzip that full installer every time I want to install.  Ideally I should pull the required files from Jenkins or some repository on the internet.

How can I pull the required files from the internet?  Or even better, how can I build them myself and put them in the lib folder?

Thanks!

ant output:

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[jbpm@localhost jbpm-installer]$ ant download.jBPM.bin

Buildfile: /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/build.xml

download.jBPM.bin.check:

     [echo] Checking jBPM binaries download ...

download.jBPM.bin:

     [echo] Getting jBPM binaries ...

      [get] Getting: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

      [get] To: /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/lib/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

      [get] Error opening connection java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

      [get] Error opening connection java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

      [get] Error opening connection java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

      [get] Can't get https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip to /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/lib/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

BUILD FAILED

/home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/build.xml:216: Can't get https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip to /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/lib/jbpm-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip

Total time: 1 second

[jbpm@localhost jbpm-installer]$

[jbpm@localhost jbpm-installer]$ ant download.dashboard

Buildfile: /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/build.xml

download.dashboard.check:

     [echo] Checking Dashboard download ...

download.dashboard:

     [echo] Getting Dashboard ...

      [get] Getting: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jbpm-dashboard-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-dashboard-distributions/target/jbpm-dashbuilder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-wildfly-8.war

      [get] To: /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/lib/dashboard-builder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT.war

      [get] Error opening connection java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jbpm-dashboard-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-dashboard-distributions/target/jbpm-dashbuilder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-wildfly-8.war

      [get] Error opening connection java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jbpm-dashboard-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-dashboard-distributions/target/jbpm-dashbuilder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-wildfly-8.war

      [get] Error opening connection java.io.FileNotFoundException: https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jbpm-dashboard-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-dashboard-distributions/target/jbpm-dashbuilder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-wildfly-8.war

      [get] Can't get https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jbpm-dashboard-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-dashboard-distributions/target/jbpm-dashbuilder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-wildfly-8.war to /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/lib/dashboard-builder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT.war

BUILD FAILED

/home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/build.xml:231: Can't get https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jbpm-dashboard-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-dashboard-distributions/target/jbpm-dashbuilder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT-wildfly-8.war to /home/jbpm/jbpm/jbpm-installer/lib/dashboard-builder-6.1.0-SNAPSHOT.war

Total time: 1 second

[jbpm@localhost jbpm-installer]$

[swiderski.maciej]

you can use lightweight version of installer that does not have anything prepared so you will need to copy all libs and then run it. At the same time you can use the full installer and simply override existing jars and reinstall the environment.

HTH

[badtea]

Hi swiderski.maciej,

I discovered the problem with the installation.  The URLs in the build.properties file are correct in the installers, but they are incorrect in the code.  As an example, look at the jBPM.url:

In the light installer and the full installer:

jBPM.version=${release.version}

jBPM.url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/jbpm/files/jBPM%206/jbpm-${jBPM.version}/jbpm-${jBPM.version}-bin.zip

In the source code tagged as 6.1.0.Final (view on github):

jBPM.version=${snapshot.version}

jBPM.url=https://hudson.jboss.org/hudson/job/jBPM-6.1.x/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/jbpm-distribution/target/jbpm-${jBPM.version}-bin.zip

Notice that the source code tagged as 6.1.0.Final is using the snapshot version, and it points to the hudson server instead of sourceforge.  Those links to the hudson servers do not work.  I was trying to build from the 6.1.0.Final tag, so my downloads failed.

So the code is wrong in the tag, but I don't know if it makes sense to go back and update the tagged code.  Usually I don't think tags are updated after they are created.