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Chapter 8. Running standalone Business Central

You can use the Business Central standalone JAR file to run Business Central without needing to deploy it to an application server such as Red Hat JBoss EAP.

Note

Red Hat supports this installation type only when it is installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Software Downloads page in the Red Hat Customer Portal (login required), and select the product and version from the drop-down options:

    • Product: Red Hat Process Automation Manager
    • Version: 7.0
  2. Download Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.0 Business Central Standalone (rhpam-7.0.0-business-central-standalone.jar).
  3. Create a directory and move the rhpam-7.0.0-business-central-standalone.jar file to this directory.
  4. In a terminal window, navigate to the directory that contains the standalone JAR file.
  5. Create the application-users.properties file. Include an administrative user and if this Business Central instance will be a controller for Process Server, include a controller user, for example:

    rhpamAdmin=password1
    controllerUser=controllerUser1234
  6. Create the application-roles.properties file to assign roles to the users that you included in the application-users.properties file, for example:

    rhpamAdmin=admin
    controllerUser=kie-server
  7. Create the application-config.yaml configuration file with the following contents, where <APPLICATION_USERS> is the path to the application-users.properties file and <APPLICATION_ROLES> is the path to the application-roles.properties file:

    swarm:
      security:
        security-domains:
          other:
            classic-authentication:
              login-modules:
                myloginmodule:
                  code: org.kie.security.jaas.KieLoginModule
                  flag: optional
                  module: deployment.kie-wb-webapp.war
      management:
        security-realms:
          ApplicationRealm:
            local-authentication:
              default-user: local
              allowed-users: local
              skip-group-loading: true
            properties-authentication:
              path: <APPLICATION_USERS>
              plain-text: true
            properties-authorization:
              path: <APPLICATION_ROLES>
    datasource:
      management:
        wildfly:
          admin: admin
  8. Enter the following command:

    java -jar rhpam-7.0.0-business-central-standalone.jar -s application-config.yaml

    In addition, you can set any properties supported by Business Central by including the -D<property>=<value> parameter in this command, for example:

    java -jar rhpam-7.0.0-business-central-standalone.jar -s application-config.yaml -D<property>=<value> -D<property>=<value>

    See Section 8.1, “Supported properties” for more information.

8.1. Supported properties

When you install standalone Business Central, you can use the properties listed in this section in the following command:

java -jar rhpam-7.0.0-business-central-standalone.jar -s application-config.yaml -D<property>=<value> -D<property>=<value>

In this command, <property> is a property from the following list and <value> is a value that you assign to that property:

  • org.uberfire.nio.git.dir: Location of the Process Server Git directory.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.dirname: Name of the Process Server Git directory. Default value: .niogit.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.daemon.enabled: Enables or disables the Git daemon. Default value: true.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.daemon.host: If the Git daemon is enabled, it uses this property as the local host identifier. Default value: localhost.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.daemon.port: If the Git daemon is enabled, it uses this property as the port number. Default value: 9418.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.enabled: Enables or disables the SSH daemon. Default value: true.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.host: If the SSH daemon enabled, it uses this property as the local host identifier. Default value: localhost.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.SSH.port: If the SSH daemon is enabled, it uses this property as the port number. Default value: 8001.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.cert.dir: Location of the .security directory where local certificates are stored. Default: the working directory.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.passphrase: Pass phrase used to access the public key store of your operating system when cloning git repositories with SCP style URLs. Example: git@github.com:user/repository.git.
  • org.uberfire.nio.git.ssh.algorithm: Algorithm used by SSH. Default value: DSA.

    Note

    If you plan to use RSA or any algorithm other than DSA, make sure you set up your application server to use the Bouncy Castle JCE library.

  • org.uberfire.metadata.index.dir: Place where the Lucene .index directory is stored. Default: the working directory.
  • org.uberfire.ldap.regex.role_mapper: Regex pattern used to map LDAP principal names to the application role name. Note that the variable role must be part of the pattern because it is substituted by the application role name when matching a principal value to a role name. Default: Not used.
  • org.uberfire.sys.repo.monitor.disabled: Disables the configuration monitor. Do not disable unless you are sure. Default value: false.
  • org.uberfire.secure.key: Password used by password encryption. Default value: org.uberfire.admin.
  • org.uberfire.secure.alg: Crypto algorithm used by password encryption. Default value: PBEWithMD5AndDES.
  • org.uberfire.domain: Security-domain name used by uberfire. Default value: ApplicationRealm.
  • org.guvnor.m2repo.dir: Place where the Maven repository folder is stored. Default value: <working-directory>/repositories/kie.
  • org.guvnor.project.gav.check.disabled: Disables group ID, artifact ID, and version (GAV) checks. Default value: false.
  • org.kie.example: Enables external cloning of a demo application from GitHub.
  • org.kie.build.disable-project-explorer: Disables automatic build of a selected project in Project Explorer. Default value: false.
  • org.kie.verification.disable-dtable-realtime-verification: Disables the real-time validation and verification of decision tables. Default value: false.
  • org.kie.server.controller: URL for connecting with a Kie Server controller, for example: ws://localhost:8080/business-central/websocket/controller.
  • org.kie.server.user: User name used to connect with the Process Server nodes from the controller. This property is only required when using this Business Central installation as a controller.
  • org.kie.server.pwd: Password used to connect with the Process Server nodes from the controller. This property is only required when using this Business Central installation as a controller.