Guidewire Installation Manual
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Guidewire Studio Setup Manual
System Requirements
Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit or Higher
8GB RAM or Higher
5GB Hard Disk Space
Software Requirements
JDK 7u80-windows-x64.exe
apache-ant-1.8.2.rar
PolicyCenterApp.zip
7-Zip
Chrome / Firefox browser
Installation Location: D:\Guidewire folder [ It could be any location in your system]
1. Install JDK1.7_80 in your system
By default JDK will get installed in C:\Program Files\Java\Jdk1.7.0_80 Folder
2. Extract apache-ant-1.8.2.rar into D:\Guidewire folder
Once extracted the Ant tool will be in D:\Guidewire\apache-ant-1.8.2 folder
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3. Extract PolicyCenterApp.zip into D:\Guidewire folder
Once extracted Guidewire Studio will be in D:\Guidewire\PolicyCenter Folder
4. Change the following files in Guidewire studio
a. Open the build.properties file in D:\Guidewire\PolicyCenter\modules\ant folder
(Open in wordpad or Notepad++)
b. Change the Java version to 1.7 and save the file.
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c. Open config.xml file in D:\Guidewire\PolicyCenter\modules\configuration\config
folder. (Open in wordpad or notepad++).
d. Change the EnableInternalDebugTools property to true, and save the file
5. Create a windows batch file as follows. [ you can add this in the Environment variables also]
a. Open notepad
b. Add the below lines to notepad.
c. Save the file as “startgw.bat” in D:\Guidewire Folder. Save within double quotes.
6. To start the Guidewire studio, follow the below steps
a. Open command prompt.
b. Change the current directory to D:\Guidewire
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c. Type startgw.bat in the command prompt.
d. Change the directory to D:\Guidewire\PolicyCenter
e. Type studio.bat (Enter) in the command prompt.
f. This will start Guidewire Studio.
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It takes some time to initialize the studio environment. You can see an Indexing progress bar .
7. To start the Guidewire server, click on Run --> Debug Server as follows
7. It takes some time to start the server first time. You can see the status in the status bar of
Guidewire studio.