Setting up your environment to automate processes
To deploy RuleApps to Rule Execution Server, automate managerial tasks within Decision Center, and run many of the samples, you must have Ant installed on your computer.
About this task
The required version of Ant is 1.7.1 (or later). If Ant is not installed, or your version is older than version 1.7.1, you must set up your environment to use the correct version of Ant.
You can download Ant from http://ant.apache.org/, or you can use the Ant 1.7.1 distribution packaged in the following directory: <InstallDir>/shared/tools/ant.
Procedure
To test and set up your environment to use Ant: