This section of the guide provides basic details on how to install the SwitchYard distribution on your system.
SwitchYard is available pre-installed in JBoss Application Server (AS) or as a separate download for install in an existing JBoss AS installation. The following SwitchYard distributions are available:
switchyard-as7 : includes SwitchYard and JBoss AS version 7.1.1 Final of the JBoss Application Server .
switchyard-installer : includes SwitchYard runtime and an installation script to install SwitchYard into a JBoss AS7 of your choice.
switchyard-tools : contains the SwitchYard administration console web application and Forge plugins.
All versions of SwitchYard can be downloaded from JBoss.
SwitchYard is low on prerequisites. The only things you need check are:
You are running on a Java 6 JDK.
You have a configured instance of Maven 3 for building the SwitchYard Quickstarts.
Download the SwitchYard Distribution Zip file and simply unzip it into a suitable location on your file system.
It is not mandatory to configure $JBOSS_HOME on your system, but if you already have it configured you will need to reset it to point to the root of the unzipped SwitchYard AS7 distribution.
To start the SwitchYard AS instance simply open a command terminal, change directory into the distribution bin directory and execute the "standalone" command script ( standalone.sh on Unix/Linux/MacOS and standalone.bat on Windows).