Here is how I have installed Drools 5.1 and Eclipse 3.6.
It’s just like it is described in the drools documentation.
There are few differences :
It’s just like it is described in the drools documentation.
There are few differences :
- Zip file names to download are given
- At each step a test is given in order to check how things are going
- Only one way of installation is given in order to simplify the installation process
- Java
- check java -version (java 1.5 is required)
- Drools documentation
- go to jboss.org/drools/downloads.html
- download drools documentation (50.8MB)
- read chapter 3 from drools introduction
- Eclipse modeling tools 3.6 (Helios)
- go to www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- download and extract eclipse modeling tools (249 MB)
- run eclipse
- check if you can find GEF 3.4 or greater
- exit eclipse
- Drools 3.5 Eclipse Workbench
- go to jboss.org/drools/downloads.html
- download Drools 3.5 Eclipse Workbench
- unzip this file in eclipse directory
- run eclipse
- it’s ok if you can open the drools perspectice
- Download Drools binaries 5.1
- go to jboss.org/drools/downloads.html
- download and extract the binaries
- run eclipse
- click windows/preferences/drools/drools runtime and enter the path where the downloaded file has been extracted
- click files/new/drools project
- enter a project name
- click next and choose to add a hello word test sample and to add a sample java class to load and run the hello world
- check : compile and run this project as a java application