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