Development Installation

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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:
* tTo (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 (just a restart of the Petals container that is faster),
* to update service unit directly in the internal repository of Petals ESB without requiring an (un)deployment (just a restart of the Petals container that is faster).
* 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 can't cannot be managed from a remote machine through JMX).

h1. Installation
h1. System Requirements

As explained above, by default Petals ESB requires almost no configuration. You just have to unzip the Petals ESB archive wherever you want to install it.
System requirements are less strict for developement than for production.
In particular, in addition to the operating system that are mentioned in the [production requirements|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.
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On Windows systems, the path of some files created by Petals ESB can become quite long and may causes Petals ESB stop working properly.
h1. Hardware Requirements
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For testing and development purpose:
* 2 GHz\+ CPU or equivalent
* 512 MB of RAM
* 100 Mbits/s network interface
* 500 MB of disk

h1. Installation

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