Testing ACtiviti, but download maven, tomcat.. :(

[fthamura1]

hi all

i did try the activit beta2, and it is runn well

but i got that the ant, download maven, download tomcat.. that is annoying

and when we wanna to re-run again, it recreate the h2.

will this become the standard activiti setup model?

i try ant -projecthelp, it has demo.setup only,

i believe if we have better option that will be better, like running tomcat

i run it manually anyway, and run now

but for me this is strange..

[jbarrez]

The demo setup has as only purpose to get you started with Activiti in a matter of minutes.
Since we can't assume anything is installed on the machine (besides Java), we download it all to make it work on as many machines as possible.

Of course, this isn't the way you'll want to run Activiti. Since Activiti is a plain old Jar, you can do anything you want: run it in your webapp in Tomcat, Jboss, etc. Or run it standalone, with Swing, etc. The demo setup should give you enough insight in an example setup with Activiti, but it is surely not the only way to do it.

[mturatti]

Hello Joram,

This seems to be a common complaint I have heard, maybe it is just not clear enough from the documentation. There is a perception that the only way to start Activiti is by running the demo, which is misleading.

Thanks,
M.T.

[jbarrez]

I understand your reasoning. That's why open source rocks … this is exactly the feedback we need to make Activiti better and better! Thanks!

I have created http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-214 to see it fixed in the next release.