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how to install activiti and understand it?

hishamfire — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 13:31:22 GMT

hello every one :I have a problem in installing activiti I tried to install it in eclipse but I didn't know how to begin using it .can someone show me how?second I have tried it by another way by installing apache ant server but when I want to do the dos step to open it (open the program by the ser

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

trademak — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:42:56 GMT

Hi,

Did you look at the user guide?
Or looked at the Activiti in Action book?

Best regards,

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

hishamfire — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:24:13 GMT

the problem is that I have installed apache ant but I don't know how to run this program on it I read the installation steps but this problem appeared to me and didn't know how to solve it . can someone help me in this ? the apache in the path C:\activiti-5.9\apps doesn't exist so how can I solve this problem?

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

mhp — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:49:00 GMT

the problem is that I have installed apache ant but I don't know how to run this program on it I read the installation steps but this problem appeared to me and didn't know how to solve it . can someone help me in this ? the apache in the path C:\activiti-5.9\apps doesn't exist so how can I solve this problem?

Hey,

you said that, you installed apache ant, my question is: have you set path in environment variables like C:\Program Files\apache-ant-1.7.1\bin

if you set path like above,then ant will work fine and you can able to get "apps" folder.

After that just follow the User Guide given by Activiti.

Thanks,
mhp.

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

hishamfire — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:03:31 GMT

thanks.of course I have done the ant step but my problem how to solve this 404 error this type of error I want to know about how to solve it any way . I have search very well and I found this it maybe useful to me but I don't know how :
http://forums.activiti.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=3657
Sorry I very beginner in this field and I need more help in this.

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

tiesebarrell — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:34:54 GMT

since the application is not available (404), there was probably a problem starting it. If you started the application using the demo setup with Ant, there is information in the console. Have you checked for any errors there?

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

hishamfire — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:30:21 GMT

I want to use it with alfresco cms , now I'm trying to install it into eclipse , but the problem that I have eclipse in my ubuntu already , then I have tried to install graphiti into it so I can start jbpm. it give me error messages , I need help in that . can some help ?

also I have tried to install a new version of jboss on my ubuntu , every thing got cool except the last thing when I want to start the program there is an error message comes out to me , I think that because I haven't save some codes inside the terminal to make it executable like eclipse. so I can install activiti plugin .can someone help?

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

hishamfire — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:23:31 GMT

also this what appeared to me


control@control-laptop:~$ cd /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup
control@control-laptop:~/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup$ ant demo.start
Buildfile: build.xml

demo.install:

internal.cfg.create:
    [mkdir] Created dir: /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup/build/activiti-cfg
     [copy] Copying 1 file to /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup/build/activiti-cfg
      [zip] Building zip: /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup/build/activiti-cfg.jar
     [echo] copying configuration to ../workspace/activiti-engine-examples/src/main/config
    [mkdir] Created dir: /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/workspace/activiti-engine-examples/src/main/config
    [unzip] Expanding: /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup/build/activiti-cfg.jar into /home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/workspace/activiti-engine-examples/src/main/config

internal.classpath.libs:

internal.taskdef.launch:

h2.start:
     [echo] starting H2 database…
   [launch] launching cmd '/home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/apps/h2/h2.start.sh ' in dir '/home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/apps/h2'
   [launch] waiting for launch completion msg 'TCP server running on'…
   [launch]   Exception in thread "main" org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLException: Exception opening port "9092" (port may be in use), cause: "java.net.BindException: Address already in use" [90061-132]
   [launch]    at org.h2.message.DbException.getJdbcSQLException(DbException.java:316)
   [launch]    at org.h2.message.DbException.get(DbException.java:156)
   [launch]    at org.h2.util.NetUtils.createServerSocketTry(NetUtils.java:175)
   [launch]    at org.h2.util.NetUtils.createServerSocket(NetUtils.java:141)
   [launch]    at org.h2.server.TcpServer.start(TcpServer.java:200)
   [launch]    at org.h2.tools.Server.start(Server.java:330)
   [launch]    at org.h2.tools.Server.runTool(Server.java:216)
   [launch]    at org.h2.tools.Server.main(Server.java:106)
   [launch]   Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use
   [launch]    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketBind(Native Method)
   [launch]    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.bind(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:376)
   [launch]    at java.net.ServerSocket.bind(ServerSocket.java:376)
   [launch]    at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:237)
   [launch]    at java.net.ServerSocket.<init>(ServerSocket.java:128)
   [launch]    at org.h2.util.NetUtils.createServerSocketTry(NetUtils.java:171)
   [launch]    … 5 more
   [launch] launched process completed
     [echo] H2 database started

tomcat.start:
   [launch] launching cmd '/home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/apps/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin/startup.sh ' in dir '/home/control/Downloads/activiti-5.9/apps/apache-tomcat-6.0.32/bin'
   [launch] waiting for launch completion msg 'Using CLASSPATH:'…
   [launch] launched process completed

explorer.browser.open:

demo.start:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 6 seconds
control@control-laptop:~/Downloads/activiti-5.9/setup$

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

tiesebarrell — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:26:24 GMT

There is something running on port 9092. Kill that process first, then retry.

Caused by: java.net.BindException: Address already in use

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

hishamfire — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:35:37 GMT

can you give this command

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

tiesebarrell — Sat, 12 May 2012 06:30:31 GMT

do something like ps -ef | grep -i java

look for java processses that are still running, presumably a tomcat instance or something like that. Then do kill -5 <processid>

You can find hundreds of examples for this kind of stuff with a Google search, there's nothing specific to Activit about it.

Re: how to install activiti and understand it?

dancrumb — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:18:30 GMT

The '9092 in use' error refers to the H2 database. This is most likely due to you running 'ant demo.start' without running 'ant demo.stop' first. This means that the H2 instance is still running and you're trying to run a second instance leading to a port conflict.

What's more relevant is that the Tomcat version in your 404 error is 6.0.29, but the version of Tomcat that comes with your Activiti package is 6.0.32
This means that you're not hitting the Activiti Tomcat container with your request, hence the 404.

So, do you have another version of Tomcat installed? If so, are your CATALINA_* variables set to point to this version of Tomcat? That's the problem I had and I fixed it by setting CATALINA_HOME, CATALINA_BASE and CATALINA_TEMP to point to my Activiti Tomcat… things worked fine then.

On a related note, I think this might actually be a common issue and so I've opened a JIRA ticket http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1226