Getting Started

This guide walks you through the Hop basics.

It is built around one small example that you’ll carry from chapter to chapter: a pipeline that creates and writes data, a workflow that runs it and handles failure, and a project that holds both. By the end you’ll have built and run something real, and you’ll know where to look for everything else.

Set aside about an hour. All you need is a machine with Java on it.

This is what we’ll cover:

  1. What is Hop? - what the platform is for

  2. Download & Install - get it running

  3. Concepts - the vocabulary

  4. Hop Gui overview - find your way around

  5. Your first pipeline - build, preview and run it

  6. Your first workflow - orchestrate it

  7. Projects and environments - make it portable

  8. The Hop toolbox - run it without the GUI

  9. Next Steps - where to go from here