You must have Apache Ant installed on your computer to deploy RuleApps to Rule
Execution Server, automate managerial tasks within Decision Center, and run many of the samples.
Before you begin
You must use Ant 1.7.1 or later. You can download Ant from The Apache Ant Project, or you can use the Ant
1.7.1 distribution in the installation directory
<InstallDir>/shared/tools/ant.
Procedure
To set up and test Ant:
- Set the ANT_HOME environment variable
to <InstallDir>/shared/tools/ant.
- Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the path to your JDK
installation.
- Add the directory <InstallDir>/shared/tools/ant/bin to
your PATH environment variable.
- Test your current version of Ant by typing the following
in a Windows command prompt
or UNIX shell: