Installing and running WSO2EI Tooling

In order to install and run the WSO2ESB Tooling, let's look at the following steps:

1. The first step is to download the tooling from the WSO2 product site at: http://wso2.com/integration:

2. We just have to choose the full distribution that matches our operating system and it will start to download.
3. Once the download is complete, we will have a ZIP file containing the prepackaged WSO2EI Tooling in Eclipse Mars 2. We just have to unzip this file in the desired folder ($WSO2EITOOL) and then we will have Eclipse WSO2EI Tooling ready to be launched as a regular one. For Mac users, you can download a .dmg file. For specific installation instructions and known issues, refer to the official documentation at http://wso2.com/integration.

Note

We are working with version 4.1.0, which is the most recent version at the time of writing this book.

4. The only requirement for starting Eclipse is Java 7 or 8 JRE/JDK. Assuming that it is installed, we can launch Eclipse by typing...