PMF Workstation Installation Guide

Overview

Follow this installation guide in order to setup your workstation for development using PMF.

DevKit Installer

The PMF Developer Kit Installer will install a ready-to-use PMF, database and runtime on your developer machine.

Prerequisite:
The installer requires Java installed.

Install Oracle’s JRE.
Add a JAVA_HOME variable, pointing to the JRE

Mac and Linux: Edit your ~/.bash_profile:
```
 #### openJdk JAVA
 export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk17.0.13.jdk/Contents/Home"
```
Windows:
Follow this guide.

Installation

Get the PMF DevKit package from the Downloads page, and unzip the package.

Starting and stopping the server

Open a command-line window and navigate to the extracted folder location.

Mac and Linux:

To start the server: ./run.sh -bg
To stop the server: ./stop.sh

Windows:

To start the server: ./run.cmd -bg
To stop the server: ./stop.cmd

Accessing the PMF Operations Console

You can access the PMF Operations Console in the following ways:

From command-line, execute: pmfdev server console
From a browser, visit: http://localhost:9080/mfpconsole

console

PMF CLI

The PMF CLI is a command-line interface enabling you to register applications in the PMF, pull/push application from/to the PMF, create Java and JavaScript adapters, manage multiple local and remote servers, update live applications using Direct Update and so on.

Prerequisite:

NodeJS and NPM are requirements before you can install the PMF CLI.
Download and install NodeJS v10.24.0 and NPM v6.14.11.

To verify the installation, open a command-line window and execute: node -v.
Some CLI commands, such as creating, building and deploying adapters require Maven. See the next section for installation instructions.

Installation of PMF CLI

Open Terminal and execute: npm install -g pmfdev-cli.

Mac and Linux: Note that you may need to run the command using sudo.
Read more about fixing NPM permissions.

To Verify the installation, open a command-line window and execute: pmfdev -v or pmfdev help.

console

Adapters and Security Checks

Adapters and Security Checks are your door-way to introduce authentication and other security layers to your application.

Prerequisite:
Apache Maven is a required to set-up before you can create adapters and security checks.

Download the Apache Maven .zip
Add a MVN_PATH variable, pointing to the Maven folder

Mac and Linux: Edit your ~/.bash_profile:
```
 #### Apache Maven
 export MVN_PATH="/usr/local/bin"
```
Windows:

Follow this guide.

Verify the installation by executing:
```
 mvn -v
```

Usage

With Apache Maven installed, you can now create adapters either via Maven command-line commands, or by using the PMF CLI.
For more information, review the Adapters tutorials.

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