First you need to set up your development environment and install the CIB seven and the Camunda Modeler.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have the following set of tools installed:

• Java JDK 11+,
• Apache Maven (optional, if not installed you can use embedded Maven inside Eclipse.)
• A modern web browser (recent Firefox, Chrome or Microsoft Edge will work fine)
• Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE)

CIB seven

First, download a distribution of the CIB seven. You can choose from different distributions for various application servers. In this tutorial, we will use the Apache Tomcat based distribution. Download it from the download page.

After having downloaded the distribution, unpack it inside a directory of your choice. We will call that directory $CIBSEVEN_HOME.

After you have successfully unpacked your distribution of the CIB seven, execute the script named start-cibseven.bat (for Windows users), respectively start-cibseven.sh (for Unix users).

This script will start the application server and open a welcome screen in your web browser. If the page does not open, go to http://localhost:8080/camunda-welcome/index.html.

Camunda Modeler

Download the Camunda Modeler from the Camunda Modeler download page.

After downloading the Modeler, simply unzip the download in a folder of your choice.

After you have successfully unpacked the zip, run camunda-modeler.exe (for Windows users), camunda-modeler.app (for Mac users), or camunda-modeler.sh (for Linux users).