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Date: 2006-06-08 04:20:25 -0400 (Thu, 08 Jun 2006)
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+JBoss Rules Essentials Lab Excercise 1
+	- Introduction -
+---------------------------------------------
+
+Instructions:
+	This excercise ensures that the plug in and environment/path are all setup, 
+	and the student can fire off some simple code to fire some rules in the rule IDE/Workbench.	
+	
+	Step 1: Install Eclipse 3.2 if it is already on the machine. (and check that it starts up ! let the workspace be in the default location).
+	Step 2: Install the JBoss Rules plug in
+		This can be done 2 ways (at your discretion)
+		1. From the update site (if connected to the web or update site or a local update site exists)
+		   ONLY use this if you are familiar with Eclipse and how update sites work.
+		2. Open the plug in zip file (jbossrules-ide-3.XXX-bin.zip) where XXX is the appropriate version.
+		   You will find file in /plugins directory inside the zip called org.drools.ide_XXX.jar (where XXX is appropriate version).
+		   Stick that jar file in the /plugins directory where your eclipse is installed. Restart Eclipse.
+		  (if you were to open that jar file, you will see all the deps and jars inside it).
+        Step 3: Fire up eclipse, you should notice the new rules icon.
+	Step 4: From the rule icons menu, choose "New Rules Project", and then enter the name "LabProject" as the project name, press "Finish"
+	Step 6: Examine the structure of the rule project, both src/rules and src/java should be setup on the classpath already.
+	Step 7: Open the Sample.drl file in the src/rules folder, not the Drools icon, and the syntax highlighting etc.
+	Step 8: Also note that the package of the drl does not have to be the same as the folder structure the rules are stored in.
+	Step 9: Open the DroolsTest class file that is generated. Note that it has an inner static class that is used as a fact in the rule.
+	Step 10: Run the DroolsTest class as a java application: Run menu|Run As|Java Application
+	Step 11: You should see results in the console output tab down the bottom. ("Hello Cruel world..." etc).
+	Step 13: (optional) - can convert to a unit test with JUnit if you want (JUnit is already on the classpath).
+	Step 14: Try out the rule creation wizard, press ctrl+N, then choose JBoss Rules, then choose New Rule Resource. Create a new empty rule to your liking.
+	Step 15: party. Note that for rules to be built automatically, need to be in .drl files. You can also use .rule files, but they will
+	         not be built in the background automatically (sometimes you want that). Any other format, and it will just be a text editor.
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