Installing Petals ESB using the ZIP archive

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.

Don't use a directory containing space as Petals home directory
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Uninstalling Petals ESB

Removing the Petals home directory will uninstalled Petals ESB.

If needed, you must backup your configuration files before removing the directory.

Upgrading Petals ESB

Before to upgrade your Petals ESB installation, you must stop all Petals ESB containers running from the installation to update. Next, just extract files of the new ZIP archives into your Petals home directory. And restart your Petals ESB containers.

If you have updated the sample configuration, it will be replaced by the new one. So don't forget to backup it if needed before to upgrade your Petals installation.

Content of the ZIP archive

The following extensions are packaged into the ZIP archive:

  • the auto-loader,
  • the artifact repository,
  • the embedded Petals Registry Overlay,
  • the WS API.

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,
    • the sub-directory implementations contains implementations of mutable components,
      • the sub-directory registry contains implementations of the mutable component 'Registry',
        • the sub-directory default contains the default implementation of the mutable component,
  • a directory conf containing the default configuration of the Petals container,
  • a directory extensions where all libraries required by extensions listed bellow are put,
  • a directory data that is the root directory of the data area required by The default container:
    • the sub-directory repository is the default storage area of the internal repository containing installed/deployed artifacts,
    • 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 artifact,
    • the sub-directory installed: the directory scanned by the auto-loader of the default container to uninstall/undeploy artifact,
    • the sub-directory artifacts: the default root directory of the artifact repository, containing:
      • the sub-directory sl where JBI shared library archives are put,
      • the sub-directory components where JBI component archives are put,
      • the sub-directory sa where JBI service assembly archives are put,
  • a directory logs that is the directory in which log files of the default container will be written.
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