Action Pack Development Kit

This project enables Action Pack development in Java. No more need to deal with all the Automic Automation Engine objects from AWI. Full focus on developing reusable building blocks for your automated processes leveraging your existing coding best practices!

Build

The Maven build creates a JAR-file.

mvn package

Install

Install the development kit in your local Maven repository

mvn install

Usage

Create a new project using the action-pack-archetype

This is probably the easiest way to create a new action pack. Download and build the action-pack-archetype and install it in your local Maven repository. As soon as the action-pack-archetype is available you may create a new project with the following command:

mvn archetype:generate -B -DarchetypeGroupId=com.broadcom 
                          -DarchetypeArtifactId=action-pack-archetype 
                          -DarchetypeVersion=1.1.0 
                          -DgroupId=com.broadcom 
                          -DartifactId=my-action-pack 
                          -Dversion=1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

Test your action pack

Even without installing the action pack in Automic Automation or Automic Continuous Devlivery Automation you can test its functionality. If you implemented your action pack based on the provided archetype building the project will result in an executable JAR file. Use the following command to see what options you have:

java -jar <name of your jar-file> -h