Set up guide to getting up and running creating DDE rules locally.
Installing and Setting up the Spoon development environment
Alterian CX uses PDI (Kettle) as for the development and testing of rules locally. Kettle transformation files (*.ktr) are generated as XML which the DDE Engine can interpret and use for rule execution and as such the Kettle application makes for the perfect development environment.
The easiest way to get up and running with Kettle is to download the pre-configured and ready to run JAVA environment from the DDE API documentation page.
Do the following to install
If it is not installed, first install the latest release of JAVA 8
Log in to DDE and open the API help
Scroll to the bottom of the API help page and click the download spoon link
Unzip the file to a location on your file system
Open spoon by browsing and double clicking the spoon.bat file in the root of the data-integration folder
Installing and setting up Apache Cassandra and DataStax DevCenter
It is useful although not essential to have Apache Cassandra also installed on your development system.
Do the following to install and set up Apache Cassandra
Download the latest build of Apache Cassandra from here
Follow the instructions here to install
Check the windows services and ensure that it is running
If the service is not running it is likely that the cdc_raw_directory is incorrectly set in the cassandra.yaml file correct this as follows
Open the cassandra.yaml file found in C:\Program Files\DataStax-DDC\apache-cassandra\conf
Find the line containing 'cdc_raw_directory: /var/lib/cassandra/cdc_raw'
Change to 'cdc_raw_directory: c:\temp\cassandra\cdc_raw'
Do the following to install and set up DataStax devCenter