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This wiki page addresses the implementation side of OODT-568. Specifically, this document will show you how to run your pre-existing PGE Task within a Windows (Cygwin-enabled) environment.

Requirements:

• Pre-existing PGE task. See CAS-PGE Learn By Example for details if you do not know how to set one up.
• Windows XP+ box
• Cygwin 
• OODT Workflow manager 0.6-SNAPSHOT+
• OODT PGE 0.6-SNAPSHOT+

Steps:

1. Tell Workflow Manager to run your PGE using special Windows (cygwin) specific code

To do this, modify your pre-existing PGE task instance entry for your PGE task within tasks.xml (WORKFLOW_HOME/policy/tasks.xml) to use the special WinPGETaskInstance class. You will need simply set the class attribute of your PGETask to use the WinPGETaskInstance class: 'org.apache.oodt.cas.pge.WinPGETaskInstance'. An example is shown below.

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