Installation changes in 10.15.5

As of June 2024, Apama is no longer available from within the Software AG Installer. This option has been replaced with .zip (Windows) and .tar.gz (Linux) files that are extracted to the desired installation location.

The installed structure of the extracted contents of the installation packages matches that created by the Software AG Installer. Therefore, the installations are equivalent. The recommended method for upgrading an installation package for a release, service pack or fix is to remove the existing installation and extract the upgraded package in its place at the same location on the disk. The same procedure can be used with an installation originally created by the Software AG Installer.

The Software AG Installer provides the ability to select an arbitrary license file and put in place during the installation. For a new installation, the license file must be manually copied into place, typically into the APAMA_WORK.license directory (see About Apama license files). If the installation is upgraded, this should not be necessary, as the license file is already in place and the APAMA_WORK directory is not touched, assuming it was placed outside of the installation directory.

Installation by extraction does not automatically create any entries in the Windows Start menu. This can be done manually if required, and does not need to be changed if the installation is updated.

Software AG Designer, which is an OEM version of Eclipse, has been replaced with a standard copy of Eclipse using the Apama plug-in. As a result, the look and feel of Software AG Designer has changed. You can see this, for example, in the Eclipse splash screen, the Eclipse Help, and the icons in the wizards and taskbar.

Several installation packages are available from Software AG Empower, as shown in the table below. Used without a license, these packages provide the freemium Apama Community Edition, with the limitations that come with it (see Running Apama without a license file).

Package Name	Use Case	Notes	Contents
Package Name	Use Case	Notes	Core	Cumulocity IoT	Eclipse with Apama plug-in *	IAF/ADBC	IBM webMethods	Samples	Documentation	SL Dashboards
apama_core	Runtime deployment	Current apama_core.
apama-c8y-dev	Cumulocity IoT development
apama-dev	Standalone users without IBM
apama-dbp-dev	Standalone users with IBM	As apama-dev with IBM components.
apama_core_{VERSION}_cumulocity	Retained for compatibility with existing zip files	Cumulocity IoT components only. Overlay on apama_core or apama-dev.
apama_core_{VERSION}_samples	Samples for EPL et al.	Current samples zip. Can be extracted separately.
apama_core_{VERSION}_doc	Apama documentation	Current documentation zip. Can be extracted separately.
apama-sl-dashboards	Dashboard development or deployment	Only SL components. Installs its own JVM into a separate directory.