Drools 5.1 and Eclipse 3.6 Installation

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 :

• 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

1. Java
1. check java -version (java 1.5 is required)
2. Drools documentation

1. go to jboss.org/drools/downloads.html
2. download drools documentation (50.8MB)
3. read chapter 3 from drools introduction
1. Eclipse modeling tools 3.6 (Helios)
1. go to www.eclipse.org/downloads/
2. download and extract eclipse modeling tools (249 MB)
3. run eclipse
4. check if you can find GEF 3.4 or greater
5. exit eclipse
2. Drools 3.5 Eclipse Workbench
1. go to jboss.org/drools/downloads.html
2. download Drools 3.5 Eclipse Workbench
3. unzip this file in eclipse directory
4. run eclipse
5. it’s ok if you can open the drools perspectice
3. Download Drools binaries 5.1
1. go to jboss.org/drools/downloads.html
2. download and extract the binaries
3. run eclipse
4. click windows/preferences/drools/drools runtime and enter the path where the downloaded file has been extracted
5. click files/new/drools project
6. enter a project  name
7. 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
8. check : compile and run this project  as a java application