Installing Petals ESB using the ZIP archive

Once the Petals ESB ZIP archive is downloaded, extract all files into a directory of your choice.
When files are extracted, Petals ESB is ready to be run. Go to "Configuring Petals ESB" to configure your own Petals ESB container.

Content of the ZIP archive

The following extensions are packaged into the ZIP archive:

• the auto-loader,
• the artfifact repository.

The ZIP archive contains:

• a directory bin that contains the startup script and launcher of Petals ESB,
• a directory lib where all libraries required by the core of Petals ESB are put,
• a directory conf containing the default configuration of the Petals container,
• a directory data that is the root directory of the data area required by The default container:
  • the sub-directory repository is the storage area of the internal repository containing installed/deployed artefacts,
  • the sub-directory work used as internal working area of the default container,
  • the sub-directory install: the directory scanned by the auto-loader of the default container to install/deploy artfifact,
  • the sub-directory installed: the directory scanned by the auto-loader of the default container to uninstall/undeploy artfifact,
• a directory logs that is the directory in which log files of the default container will be written.