Platform overview

Eclipse Dirigible is a high-productivity application platform as a service (hpaPaaS). It ships as a single Spring Boot fat jar that bundles an in-browser IDE alongside the runtime engines that execute the artefacts users author against it.

In-system programming

Dirigible is built around one premise: users develop and modify the running system through the browser. There is no separate build, no kubectl apply, no redeploy. Files placed under the on-disk repository are reconciled into runtime state by synchronizers on every change.

The mental model is "edit a file - hit save - it is live". The platform itself is the runtime, the IDE, and the deployment target.

What the fat jar bundles

A single executable carries:

• GraalJS / GraalVM polyglot - executes .js, .mjs, .ts (engine-javascript, engine-typescript).
• In-process Java compiler - compiles client .java per cycle (engine-java).
• Python - server-side modules over engine-python.
• Flowable - BPMN 2.0 process engine.
• Apache Camel - integration routes.
• Quartz - scheduled jobs.
• ActiveMQ-style listeners - message-bus consumers.
• Apache CXF - OData v2.
• Apache Lucene - registry search and indexing.
• CMIS / CMS - internal, S3, SharePoint backends.
• Hibernate - entity store (dynamic-map mode, see @aerokit/sdk/db).
• Spring Security - basic, OAuth2, Keycloak, Cognito, Snowflake, GitHub.
• In-browser IDE - Monaco editor, perspectives, modelers.

The shipped artifact is build/application/target/dirigible-application-*-executable.jar; the entry point is org.eclipse.dirigible.DirigibleApplication.

Running it

java -jar build/application/target/dirigible-application-*-executable.jar

• UI at http://localhost:8080
• Default credentials: admin / admin
• Swagger UI: /swagger-ui/index.html
• Health probes: /actuator/health/readiness, /actuator/health/liveness

The default datasource is a file-backed H2 instance at ./target/dirigible/h2/DefaultDB. Override via DIRIGIBLE_DATASOURCE_DEFAULT_DRIVER / _URL / _USERNAME / _PASSWORD. The server port is DIRIGIBLE_SERVER_PORT (default 8080).

License

Eclipse Public License 2.0.

Next

• Polyglot runtime
• Repository and workspace
• The synchronizer model