Download and Install Atomiton Stack (With provided download link)

Download A-Stack

Download the A-Stack Zip file that has been provided to you using the downloadable zip file link that has been provided to your email.

Install A-Stack

Prerequisite to Install

Make sure you have Java JDK 1.8 installed on your system. Please note that A-Stack is not compatible with latest versions of JDK.
Make sure JAVA_HOME variable is set up correctly

Installation Steps

Unzip A-Stack Bundle

Open a terminal or cmd window and create a directory (say, atomiton-release)
Run unzip <Name of the A-Stack Bundler Zip file>

Content Description

Once the bundle is unzipped you will following files and folder structure.

File/Folder Name	Description
bin	TQL Command Line Interface Tool (Windows: tql.bat; Linux: tql)
lib	Libraries used by TQL Command Line Interface Tool
syslib	Atomiton Provided Drivers associated with various protocol handlers. Please look at
logs	Log files generated by A-Stack
examples	Sample Models
sff.local.config.xml	Add you local project specific settings here
resources	Temporary store where you projects gets imported and stored
sff.auto.launch	Folder containing runtime / 3rd party redistributable bundlers (Including Protocol Handlers prepackaged by Atomiton)
tqlengineui	A-Stack Javascipt/HTML files
atomiton.A-Stack.jar	A-Stack Runtime (Main one!)

Starting A-Stack

Please refer to TQL Command Line Interface Engine command-line start options to start A-Stack

Verify Installation

There are two ways you can verify that the engine has started successly

Using TQL Command Line Interface Engine command with Status option
Looking at the log file (logs/startup.log) which should display

Default Configuration

Default configuration settings of A-Stack

Default Engine Configuration Setting

<SffLocalConfig>
        <Deploy.Location>/Users/baseerkhan/iot/atomiton/atomiton-release/</Deploy.Location>
        <Project.Repository.Location>[:Deploy.Location:]resources</Project.Repository.Location>
        <sff.server.port>8080</sff.server.port>
        <sff.local.deploy></sff.local.deploy>
</SffLocalConfig>

A-Stack starts on port 8080 by default. You can edit this file to change the default settings.

Log Files

A-Stack by default creates log files in logs folder in A-Stack folder

By default Log provider configured is Log4j with following Log4j properties files

Default Log4j settings

#Log4J Properties :
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, R
log4j.appender.R=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.R.File=deviceEngine.log
log4j.appender.R.MaxFileSize=50Mb
# Keep one backup file
log4j.appender.R.MaxBackupIndex=20
log4j.appender.R.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.R.layout.ConversionPattern=[%d] %p %c [%t] %m%n

Login to A-Stack TQL Console

Login and Password are CaseSensitive**
Login Password
TQLEngine@atomiton.com tql123
Login URL
http://<hostipaddress>:<defaultPort>/app/index.html
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Next, let's try importing a sample project.