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.
System requirements
Memory | - ~ 2 GB minimum
- ~ 512 MB heap size. This is generally sufficient to process typical SOAP messages, but the requirements vary with larger message sizes and the number of messages processed concurrently.
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Disk | - ~ 1 GB minimum (excluding space allocated for log files and databases.)
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Environment compatibility
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Required applications
The following applications are required for running the BAM and its samples, or for building from the source code. Mandatory installs are marked with *.
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Oracle Java SE Development Kit (JDK)* | Required to;
| 1.6.*/1.7.* | Info |
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- If you are using JDK 1.6, you might need to install Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy files to 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 JRE 1.7 supports when running (not building) WSO2 products.
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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. |
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Apache Ant | To compile and run the product samples. | 1.7.0 or later | http://ant.apache.org |
| SVN Client | To check out the code to build the product from the source distribution. | Info |
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If you are installing by downloading and extracting the binary distribution instead of building from the source code, you do not need to install SVN. |
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Apache Maven | To build the product from the source distribution (both JDK and Apache Maven are required). | Info |
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If you are installing by downloading and extracting the binary distribution instead of building from the source code, you do not need to install Maven. |
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Web Browser | Required by all WSO2 products to access each 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, you must not go below the medium security level in Internet Explorer 6.x. |
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| Cygwin (mandatory for Windows*) | BAM analytics framework depends on Apache Hadoop and Hadoop requires Cygwin, in order to run in Windows. At a minimum; Basic, Net (OpenSSH, tcp_wrapper packages), and security related Cygwin packages need to be present in the system. | Info |
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After installing Cygwin, update your PATH variable by appending ";C:\cygwin\bin". This is required since the default installation of Cygwin might not do this. |
| 1.7.0 or later | http://www.cygwin.com |
You are now ready to install. Click one of the following links for instructions: