The main purpose of this chapter is to let you know how to launch the JBoss jBPM (business process management).

The jBPM plugin (jBPM Designer) is already included in the JBoss Tools. To make it work, you should only download the jBPM runtime (jbpm-jpdl-3.2.3 currently) and specify the directory where you extracted the runtime either when you create a jBPM project or by using the jBPM preference pages.

Navigate to Window > Preferences > JBoss jBPM > Runtime Locations. Here you can add, edit and remove JBoss jBPM installation locations. Click Add button. In the dialog that appeared enter a name for a newly added jBPM runtime and point to the correct location of this package on your harddrive. Click OK then click OK again.

Figure 2.1. Adding jBPM Location