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diff --git a/src/site-docs/adoc/fragments/howto-apex/introduction.adoc b/src/site-docs/adoc/fragments/howto-apex/introduction.adoc index faa2f4949..a7d8ee695 100644 --- a/src/site-docs/adoc/fragments/howto-apex/introduction.adoc +++ b/src/site-docs/adoc/fragments/howto-apex/introduction.adoc @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ // == Introduction to APEX Engine and Applications -The core of APEX is the APEX Engine, also known as the APEX Policy Engine. +The core of APEX is the APEX Engine, also known as the APEX Policy Engine or the APEX PDP (since it is in fact a Policy Decision Point). Beside this engine, an APEX system comes with a few applications intended to help with policy authoring, deployment, and execution. The engine itself and most applications are started from the command line with command line arguments. @@ -20,17 +20,10 @@ This is called a Command Line Interface (CLI). Some applications require an installation on a webserver, as for instance the REST Editor. Those applications can be accessed via a web browser. -Starting with APEX version 0.5.6, we also provide plugins for Eclipse realizing a policy development environment. -Those plugins support the main APEX policy language. -Other, higher-level, policy languages will be added in future versions along with their Eclipse plugins. -Furthermore, we are planning to provide a backend supporting the Language Server Protocol (LSP). -This backend, run as a server, will allow to join any editor or IDE that is LSP-enabled to benefit from the APEX policy languages. - -Last not least, one can use the available APEX APIs and applications to develop other applications as required. +You can also use the available APEX APIs and applications to develop other applications as required. This includes policy languages (and associated parsers and compilers / interpreters), GUIs to access APEX or to define policies, clients to connect to APEX, etc. -Separate documentation will be available in APEX releases addressing this type of applications. -For this documentation, we assume an installation of APEX as a full system (i.e. not minimal) of version 0.5.6 or higher. +For this documentation, we assume an installation of APEX as a full system based on a current ONAP release. == CLI on Unix, Windows, and Cygwin A note on APEX CLI applications: all applications and the engine itself have been deployed and tested on different operating systems: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Mac OSX, Windows, Cygwin. @@ -38,7 +31,7 @@ Each operating system comes with its own way of configuring and executing Java. The main items here are: - For UNIX systems (RHL, Ubuntu, Debian, Mac OSX), the provided bash scripts work as expected - with absolute paths (e.g. `/opt/ericsson/apex/apex-{release-version}/examples`), + with absolute paths (e.g. `/opt/app/policy/apex-pdp/apex-pdp-{release-version}/examples`), indirect and linked paths (e.g. `../apex/apex`), and path substitutions using environment settings (e.g. `$APEX_HOME/bin/`) - For Windows systems, the provided batch files (`.bat`) work as expected with |