z2-Environment

h1. How to install z2

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h2. How to install z2-environment

Installation of the z2-environment is very easy. We tested the installation on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows Vista.

h2. Prerequisites

You need a properly setup JDK 6 - that's all. 

A halfway modern system will do. 

It is benefical to use the Eclipse IDE (Ganymed, Helios or Indigo work all fine). There's a small Eclipse plugin called "Eclipsoid" which makes it easier to develop z2 applications within Eclipse (see [[First steps with z2]] for more details). However you can use any IDE (including vi and notepad) together with z2.

h2. Creating a _home_ for z2

This is a best practice approach (and other approaches are possible). We recommend to keep the repositories and the IDE workspace close together. This way we don't need to adjust the path settings in the z2 configuration files and they can remain relative paths.

Create a folder called z2_base inside your favorite/home/development/what-ever directory and enter it:

    ~/dev$ mkdir z2_base

    ~/dev$ cd z2_base

h2. Cloning the sources

As described in [[What_is_z2]] the z2_base project contains several repositories. 

You start always with the _core_ repository:

    ~/dev/z2_base$ git clone http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.core

    Cloning into core...

    ~/dev/z2_base$

The newly created core folder contains a _gitsetup_ script file for unix like OSes and Windows. This script clones the remaining repositories beside the core and creates a folder called "workspace" that you can use as the Eclipse-workspace folder. So on Linux and MacOS X you run

    ~/dev/z2_base$ cd z2-base.core

    ~/dev/z2_base/core$ ./gitsetup.sh

    Cloning/Updating the following repos: [core base samples tools] from http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base

    Cloning http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.core (branch=v2.0)

    Cloning into base...

    Cloning http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.base (branch=v2.0)

    Cloning into samples...

    Cloning http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.samples (branch=v2.0)

    Cloning into tools...

    done

On Windows you run `gitsetup.bat` instead of `./gitsetup.sh`; this takes a minute (depending on your internet access).

h2. Start the z2-environment

If you have setup JDK 6 properly you can start the z2-environment right away:

    ~/dev/z2_base/core$ cd run/bin

    ~/dev/z2_base/core$ ./go.sh

Or on windows `cd \run\bin` and then `go.bat`. You will see something like this:

    07/26 13:43:19 [1]...hers.HomeLauncher[800]: Z2 Home Launcher, (c) ZFabrik Software KG 2010, 2011

    07/26 13:43:19 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: Running core build 201107181235 as udoo in z2 home /Users/udoo/dev/git/z2_b/core/run/bin/../.., timezone Europe/Berlin, language de, region null

    07/26 13:43:19 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: Using VM v1.6.0_26 by Apple Inc. at /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home on Mac OS X (arch: 10.6.8)

    ...

    07/26 13:43:27 [22]...nment/webWorker.2[800]: 2011-07-26 13:43:27.949:INFO::jetty-6.1.22

    07/26 13:43:27 [22]...nment/webWorker.2[800]: 2011-07-26 13:43:27.977:INFO::Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080

    ...

    07/26 13:43:33 [1]...hers.HomeLauncher[800]: Completed home process initialization

    press (q)uit, (c)omponents, (f)oundation props, (s)ystem props, s(y)nc repo, (v)erify, (g)c:>

This means the z2-environment is up and running and excepting requests on localhost port 8080.  

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