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Operating Systems / Databases

• All WSO2 Carbon-based products are Java applications that can be run on any platform that is Oracle JDK 1.6.*/1.7.* compliant.    
• All WSO2 Carbon-based products are generally compatible with most common DBMSs.  
• If you have difficulty in setting up any WSO2 product in a specific platform or database, please contact us.
  

Oracle 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.

1.6.24 or later / 1.7.*

• 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 and IBM JRE 1.7 are also supported when running (not building) WSO2 products.

Apache ActiveMQ
JMS Provider

• To enable the product's JMS transport and try out JMS samples. The ActiveMQ client libraries must be installed in the product's classpath before you can enable the JMS transport.

5.5.0 or later

If you use any other JMS provider (e.g., Apache Qpid), install any necessary libraries and/or components.

Apache Ant

• To compile and run the product samples .

1.7.0 or later

• To check out the code to build the product from the source distribution. 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.

• Linux - http://subversion.apache.org/packages.html
• Windows - http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html

Apache Maven

• To build the product from the source distribution (both JDK and Apache Maven are required). 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.

3.0.3 or later

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.

NOTE: On Windows Server 2003, you must not go below the medium security level in Internet Explorer 6.x.