Installation Prerequisites

Memory

• 1 GB minimum
• A heap size of around 512MB is generally sufficient to process typical SOAP messages
• Requirements may vary with larger message sizes and on the number of messages processed concurrently

Disk

• Approximately 180 MB, excluding space allocated for log files and Databases.

Operating Systems / Databases

• As all WSO2 Carbon-based products are Java applications, it is generally possible to run them on most operating systems. These include Windows, Linux, Solaris, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mac OS X, Gentoo, SUSE, Debian etc. with a JDK 1.6.x runtime.
• However, Linux/Solaris are recommended for a production deployment.
• All WSO2 Carbon-based products are generally compatible with most-common DBMSs such as MySQL, Oracle, H2, DB2, Derby, PostgreSQL.
  

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 (1.6.0_24 onwards recommended for production)

1.7.x

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 from the source (both JDK and Apache Maven are required).

2.1.0 to 3.0.0

Required by all WSO2 products when installing from source distribution

• To checkout WSO2 Carbon source from http://svn.wso2.org/repos/wso2/carbon/kernel/branches/4.0.0 wso2carbon.

Can be downloaded form,

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

Web Browser

• To access the product's Management Console. The Web Browser must be JavaScript enabled to take full advantage of the Management console.
• NOTE: On Windows Server 2003, it is not allowed to go below the medium security level in Internet Explorer 6.x.

Required by all WSO2 products