Prior to installing any WSO2 Carbon based product, it is necessary to have the appropriate prerequisite software installed on your system. Verify that the computer has the supported operating system and development platforms before starting the installation.
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Java SE Development Kit (JDK) | - To launch the product as each product is a Java application.
- To build the product from the Source distribution (both JDK and Apache Maven are required).
- To run Apache Ant.
| 1.6.x or higher | Info |
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- If you are using JDK 1.6, you might need to replace the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) policy files in your JDK with the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy files. This will avoid "illegal key size" errors when you try to invoke a secured Web service.
- To build the product from the source distribution, you must use JDK 1.6 instead of JDK 1.7.
- Oracle and IBM JRE 1.7 are supported when running (not building) WSO2 products.
- We do not recommend OpenJDK.
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If you are using JDK7 on Mac OS, follow the steps below to install the Snappy-java library: - Download the Snappy JAR file from here, and extract it to a preferred location. We will refer this extracted folder as
<SNAPPY_HOME>. - In
<SNAPPY_HOME>/org/xerial/snappy/native/Mac/ folder, you find the Snappy java library files (.jnilib files) as i386 (32bit) and x86_64 (64bit). Copy the appropriate one to <BAM_HOME>.
For more information on installing snappy-java library, see Snappy-java fails on Mac OS JDK 1.7. |
| Required by all WSO2 products |
Apache Ant | To compile and run the sample clients. | 1.7.0 or later | Required by all WSO2 products to run product samples |
Apache Maven | To build the product's source. (both JDK and Apache Maven are required). | 2.1.0 or later | Required by all WSO2 products when installing from source distribution |
| SVN Client | To checkout WSO2 Carbon source from http: . | Can be downloaded from; http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html | Required by all WSO2 products |
Web Browser | To access the product's Management Console. The Web Browser must be JavaScript enabled to take full advantage of the Management console. | Info |
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On Windows Server 2003, it is not allowed to go below the medium security level in Internet Explorer 6. | | Required by all WSO2 products |
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