z2-Environment

h1. How to install z2 v2.1

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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:

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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@. On a desktop you can use the gui version called @gui.sh@ (resp. @gui.bat@ on Windows). 

Otherwise you can use the terminal based version @go.sh@ (resp. @go.bat@ on Windows).

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    :z2-base.core$ cd run/bin

    :z2-base.core$ ./gui.sh

    Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5000

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...hers.HomeLauncher[800]: Z2 Home Launcher, (c) ZFabrik Software KG 2010, 2011, 2012 

    09/07 15:10:24 [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

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: Using VM v1.6.0_33 by Apple Inc. at /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home on Mac OS X (arch: 10.6.8)

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: ************************************

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: *** Running in DEVELOPMENT mode! ***

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...ProcessRunnerImpl[800]: ************************************

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...entRepositoryImpl[800]: Using GitCR com.zfabrik.boot.config/systemRepository (origin=http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.base, branch=master)    com.zfabrik.impl.gitcr.GitComponentRepositoryImpl@75787005,repo:246d0e3e, component:com.zfabrik.boot.config/systemRepository, prio:500, checkDepth:1073741823, fileSystem:com.zfabrik.components.provider.fs.FileSystemImpl@36029483, root:/Users/udoo/dev/temp/z2-base-v2.1/z2-base.core/run/bin/../../work/repos/246d0e3e/git

    09/07 15:10:24 [1]...entRepositoryImpl[800]: Cloning GitCR com.zfabrik.boot.config/systemRepository (origin=http://git.z2-environment.net/z2-base.base, branch=master) . This will take some seconds...

    ...

    09/07 15:10:58 [30]...ent/webWorker@0.1[800]: Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5100

    ...

    09/07 15:11:02 [30]...ent/webWorker@0.1[800]: INFO  org.eclipse.jetty.server.AbstractConnector  - Started SelectChannelConnector@0.0.0.0:8080

    ...

    09/07 15:11:09 [1]...stemStateResource[800]: System state attained: com.zfabrik.boot.main/home_up

    09/07 15:11:09 [1]...hers.HomeLauncher[800]: Completed home process initialization

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

Open your favorite browser and run the URL http://localhost:8080/helloworld

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