Preamble

A development installation is an installation that is not suitable for production use.

We recommend to use the ZIP archive to install Petals ESB in a development mode because the user should be able to do following actions to be more productive:

• To (un)install/(un)deploy artefacts through the directories of the auto-loader.
• To patch a JBI component directly in the internal repository of Petals ESB without requiring an (un)installation (restart the Petals container is faster).
• To update service units directly in the internal repository of Petals ESB without requiring an (un)deployment (restart the Petals container is faster).

By default, Petals ESB is configured to work as a single node, on localhost (it cannot be managed from a remote machine through JMX).

System Requirements

System requirements are less strict for development than for production.
In particular, in addition to the operating system that are mentioned in the production requirements, the following ones can be used:

• Windows (XP, Vista, 7).
• Mac OS X.

Notice that Java 7 has not been tested with Petals ESB.

Hardware Requirements

For testing and development purpose:

• 2 GHz+ CPU or equivalent
• 1 GB of RAM for Petals
• 100 Mbits/s network interface
• 500 MB of disk for Petals

Installation

As explained above, by default Petals ESB requires almost no configuration.
Follow the procedure to install Petals ESB from a ZIP archive.