This is a comment followed by a question (or request for help). The comment: I want to echo the comments that others have made: there is a big opportunity for enlarging the jBPM user community by lowering the barriers to entry. We?ve all experienced the frustration of doing ?Hello World? in some unfamiliar environment. Not everybody is fluent with every tool, framework, and package, and it only takes one gap in knowledge to make the whole process fail, thus the need for precise cookbook instructions at the Hello World level. For instance, the JbpmGettingStarted wiki was tremendously helpful, many thanks! It persuaded me to jump in and get started. I looked at jBPM a few months earlier and gave up for lack of a way to get started. When I saw the JbpmGettingStarted, I decided to try it after all.
I think that potential business benefit to JBoss from strengthening the Hello World documentation is substantial. My boss definitely won?t pay for a JBoss consultant to come and help me do a Hello World app. However, once I use jBPM to produce something useful, or at least to produce a proof of concept, there is at least a possibility of justifying a JBoss consultant. The ?Hello World? documentation is vital to recruiting potential JBoss consulting customers. I understand that resources are scarce, and not everything can be thoroughly documented, but I also think from reading the forum that perhaps some of the experienced folks underestimate the difficulty of getting started, and that if they understood the level of frustration that reasonably experienced developers are having, they might see this basic documentation as a higher priority. (I?ll try to contribute a little to the documentation effort if/when I progress to the point where I understand enough about jBPM to do so.) The question: I?m trying to build the Starter app (jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1) under Tomcat, using Hypersonic (just to keep it simple). I?ve spent quite a few hours at this point digging around in the jBPM forum, scavenging for clues. I?ve found some hints about some aspects of using Tomcat with jBPM, but not quite enough to get me started. After getting the Java and jsp files (as documented in the JbpmGettingStarted wiki), I was able to get a clean Tomcat build by including the following jars. (I did find jBPM forum help on which jars to include, but the Starters Kit app seems to need several additional jars.) Here are the jars that were needed: · All 11 jar files from jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm-server\server\jbpm\deploy\jbpm.war. (Use Winzip to open the war file and then drag the jar files.) · jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm\build\jbpm-3.1.1.jar. · jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm\build\jbpm-identity-3.1.1.jar. · jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm-server\lib\commons-logging.jar. · jbpm-starters-kit-3.1.1\jbpm\lib\hibernate\hibernate3.jar. · Find struts.jar somewhere on the Web. Having gotten a clean build, I don?t know what the next steps are to get the server running. (My experiments trying to run it were unsuccessful; it seems to require a hibernate.cfg.xml file. If I add one, then there?s a parsing error.) In particular, I?m not clear on whether, fo rthe jBPM server, I need files such as hibernate.cfg.xml, jbpm.cfg.xml, or other configuration files, and if so, what the contents should be and where they go in the directory structure. I?ll confess that I?m also new to Hibernate and Hypersonic, and so I don?t know how to configure them. I was hoping for a cookbook setup to get started with, so that I could use that as a starting point in learning jBPM and Hibernate. Thanks! View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3952455#3952455 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3952455 All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user
