4.3. Setting the Drools and jBPM Runtimes

In order to use the Drools and jBPM plug-ins with JBoss Developer Studio, it is necessary to set up the Drools and jBPM runtimes.
A runtime is a collection of jar files that represent a specific release of the software.

Procedure 4.2.  Configure Drools Runtime

  1. From the JBoss Developer Studio menu, select Preferences.
  2. Select Droolsinstalled Drools Runtimes.
  3. Click Add...; provide a name for the new runtime, and click Browse to navigate to the directory where the drools runtime is located. For instance, in the BRMS 5.3.1 standalone installation, the drools runtime is located brms-standalone-5.3.1/jboss-as/client/drools/.
  4. Click OK and select the new runtime. A dialogue box will indicate JBDS must be restarted to update the Runtime.

Procedure 4.3. Configure jBPM Runtime

  1. From the JBoss Developer Studio menu, select Preferences.
  2. Select jBPMinstalled jBPM Runtimes.
  3. Click Add..., provide a name for the new runtime, and click Browse to navigate to the directory where the jBPM runtime is located. For instance, in the BRMS 5.3 standalone installation the jBPM runtime is located brms-standalone-5.3.1/jboss-as/client/jbpm/.
  4. Click OK and select the new runtime. A dialogue box will indicate JBDS must be restarted to update the Runtime.