This tutorial will get you up and running with Excalibur Fortress. We'll first download a full binary distribution and run the provided example.

Prerequisites

You'll need:

• A Java Virtual Machine
  

Step One: Download the Distribution

First, download the Fortress binary distribution:

• http://people.apache.org/~farra/excalibur/excalibur-fortress-platform-1.2.tar.gz
• http://people.apache.org/~farra/excalibur/excalibur-fortress-platform-1.2.zip
  

Now, unzip the distribution to a directory, for example, your home directory. You should now have:

  ~/excalibur-fortress-platform-1.2

Step Two: Run the Example

Open a terminal and move into the platform directory. You can run the example by:

• For windows:

  bin/fortress.bat console

• For linux:

  bin/fortress.sh

• For OS X:

  bin/run.sh

  Note: you may need to adjust the run.sh script until we get a full distribution for OS X
  

About the Binary Distribution

The binary distribution provides a fully working Fortress 1.2 install. All of the necessary jars and libraries are in the /lib directory. Executable scripts for running Fortress as a daemon or NT service are in the /bin directory (these use the Java Service Wrapper). Example configuration files are in /conf.

NOTE: this binary distribution is ALPHA quality at the moment. Please test and report any issues to the Excalibur mailing list.