An overview of the kie-config-cli tool

Chapter 2, Building Your First BPM Application (see the Creating your first jBPM project section) introduced several KIE console features (repositories and organizations management, module deployment, and so on). The KIE CLI utility provides the administrator/user with the tools to perform common tasks related to organizational units, repository, user permissions, and deployment management at the console/shell level.

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The tool project is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/droolsjbpm/kie-wb-distributions/tree/master/kie-config-cli.

You can download the tool distributions from the JBoss snapshot Maven repository:

http://snapshots.jboss.org/maven2/org/kie/kie-config-cli.

The previous section explained in detail how KIE handles Git repositories for source projects, and we previewed the existence of a KIE system Git repository; the KIE CLI tool interfaces with it and operates in two modes:

• online (default and recommended): Upon startup, it connects to...