Second day
When paying attention to the how-to, it says you have to unpack to a directory containing no spaces (cf. orange color), so that solved the problem for Intalio-Server.
A bit underneath, there is a small repetition in the prerequisites, it reads : “Geronimo, the bundled Application Server is not compatible with not compatible with Java 1.6″
After that, installing was a bit of a pain : there are a series of things to do, notably add an environment variable for java (remember to put a trailing backslash, this is necessary under windows), which by the way has to be a past version. This should be automated when installing, and updated for all new versions of java.
That being done, a browser pointed at port 8080 allowed me to log in. On to the Absence Request scenario included…
First, images load slow, they should / could be hosted on flickr or Amazon’s S3. Second, and although the tutorial is clear, the instructions should be given on the page itself. That would make the training faster. Having played a fair amount of video games, I know that commands vary significantly from one game to the another, so the designers have come up with efficient teaching methods. A sort of hand holding method should be used. No problems encountered here.
The screencast they have is very nice, and although the speech intonation might need some work, the pace is nice.
I’ll be trying the Hello World process tomorrow.