Chapter 38. Configuring and running standalone Business Central
You can use the Business Central standalone JAR file to run Business Central without deploying it to an application server. You can use sample configuration files to run the Business Central standalone JAR file out of the box or you can customize the sampfiles for your requirements.
This JAR file is supported only when it is run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Prerequisites
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The Red Hat Decision Manager 7.11.0 Business Central Standalone (
rhdm-7.11.0-decision-central-standalone.jar
) and the Red Hat Decision Manager 7.11.0 Add Ons (rhdm-7.11.0-add-ons.zip
) files have been downloaded from the Software Downloads page for Red Hat Decision Manager 7.11, as described in Chapter 32, Downloading the Red Hat Decision Manager installation files.
Procedure
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Extract the downloaded
rhdm-7.11.0-addons.zip
to a temporary directory. This archive includes therhdm-7.11.0-standalone-sample-configuration.zip
file. Extract the
rhdm-7.11.0-standalone-sample-configuration.zip
file to the directory that contains therhdm-7.11.0-decision-central-standalone.jar
file. Therhdm-7.11.0-standalone-sample-configuration.zip
file contains the following sample configuration files:-
application-roles.properties
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application-users.properties
sample-standalone-config.yml
You can run the
rhdm-7.11.0-decision-central-standalone.jar
files with the sample data provided in the configuration files or you can customize the data for your requirements.
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To customize the configuration data, complete the following steps:
Edit the
application-users.properties
file. Include an administrative user and if this Business Central instance will be a Decision Manager controller for KIE Server, include a Decision Manager controller user, for example:rhdmAdmin=password1
Edit the
application-roles.properties
file to assign roles to the users that you included in theapplication-users.properties
file, for example:rhdmAdmin=admin controllerUser=kie-server
For more information, see Section 31.2, “Red Hat Decision Manager roles and users”.
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Review the contents of the
sample-standalone-config.yml
configuration file and update as required.
To run the Business Central standalone JAR file, enter the following command:
java -jar rhdm-7.11.0-decision-central-standalone.jar -s sample-standalone-config.yml
To set application properties when you run the JAR file, include the
-D<PROPERTY>=<VALUE>
parameter in the command, where<PROPERTY>
is the name of a supported application property and<VALUE>
is the property value:java -jar rhdm-7.11.0-decision-central-standalone.jar -s sample-standalone-config.yml -D<PROPERTY>=<VALUE> -D<PROPERTY>=<VALUE>
For example, to run Business Central and connect to KIE Server as the user
controllerUser
, enter:java -jar rhdm-7.11.0-decision-central-standalone.jar \ -s sample-standalone-config.yml \ -Dorg.kie.server.user=controllerUser -Dorg.kie.server.pwd=controllerUser1234
Doing this enables you to deploy containers to KIE Server. See Appendix A, Business Central system properties for more information.