z2-Environment

h1. How to install z2 v2.1

[[Step_1_-_What_is_z2|« Step 1 - What is z2]]

h2. Prerequisites

You need a properly setup JDK 6 on Linux, Mac OS X or Windows - 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:

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:dev$ mkdir z2-base

:dev$ cd z2-base

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h2. Cloning the sources

As described in [[What_is_z2]] the z2-base project contains several repositories. 

You always start with the _core_ repository. Create a clone from git.z2-environment.net which will checkout the "v2.1" branch automatically:

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

Cloning into core...

:z2-base$ cd z2-base.core

:z2-base.core$ git branch

* v2.1

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That's all you need to do in order to install the z2-environment and you can start the server right away

if you have setup JDK 6 properly.

h2. Start the z2-environment

The start scripts are located inside @run/bin@ and are called _go.sh_ on Unix based systems like Linux and Mac OS and _go.bat_ on Windows. There's also a gui-based version that we will discover later. 

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:z2-base.core$ cd run/bin

:bin$ ./go.sh &

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...hers.HomeLauncher[800]: Z2 Home Launcher, (c) ZFabrik Software KG 2010, 2011, 2012

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: Running core build 201208241554 as udoo in z2 home /Users/udoo/dev/temp/z2-base-v2.1/z2-base.core/run/bin/../.., timezone Europe/Berlin, language de, region null

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: Using VM v1.6.0_35 by Apple Inc. at /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home on Mac OS X (arch: 10.6.8)

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: ************************************

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: *** Running in DEVELOPMENT mode! ***

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: ************************************

09/10 15:59:10 [1]...entRepositoryImpl[800]: Using GitCR com.zfabrik.boot.config/systemRepository (origin=http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.base, branch=v2.1) com.zfabrik.impl.gitcr.GitComponentRepositoryImpl@71b8b3bb,repo:246d0e3e, component:com.zfabrik.boot.config/systemRepository, prio:500, checkDepth:1073741823, fileSystem:com.zfabrik.components.provider.fs.FileSystemImpl@151ff451, root:/Users/udoo/dev/temp/z2-base-v2.1/z2-base.core/run/bin/../../work/repos/246d0e3e/git

09/10 15:59:12 [1]...entRepositoryImpl[800]: Pulled deltas from GitCR com.zfabrik.boot.config/systemRepository (origin=http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.base, branch=v2.1)  within 1684msec

...

09/10 15:59:12 [18]...ent/webWorker@0.1[800]: Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5100

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09/10 15:59:13 [18]...ent/webWorker@0.1[800]: INFO  org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector  - Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080

...

09/10 15:59:16 [1]...stemStateResource[800]: System state attained: com.zfabrik.boot.main/home_up

09/10 15:59:16 [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:>

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This means the z2-environment is up and running and excepting requests on localhost port 8080, just try it: http://localhost:8080/helloworld. 

Actually this is enough to run the z2-environment as a productive site - of course one would combine this with a web server like Apache - however from a system installation point of view, this is all what you have to do!

On the next page we will do some first development step with z2 in combination with the Eclipse IDE. It's quite handy to run the z2 server from inside Eclipse, so you should stop the running server now by pressing 'q'.

[[Step_3_-_First_development_steps|» Step 3 - First development steps]]