Project WebSynergy Milestone 4 Getting Started Guide

Before You Begin

Software and Hardware Requirements

Table 2–1 lists the operating system, Java platform, and system memory requirements for WebSynergy Milestone 4 software.

Table 2–1 Project WebSynergy Milestone 4 Software and Hardware Requirements

Operating Systems

  • OpenSolaris 2008.05 (x86/x64)

  • Solaris 10 or later (SPARC/x86)

  • Modern Linux operating systems (Ubuntu 8, SuSE 10, Red Hat 5)

  • Microsoft Windows XP Professional, Vista 32–bit

  • Mac OS X 10.4 or later

Java Platform

  • Java Runtime Environment 1.6.0_7 or later (1.5 or later on Mac OS X)

  • Java JDK 1.6.0_7 or later (1.5 or later on Mac OS X)

System Memory (RAM)

  • Solaris, Linux: 1 GB minimum, at least 2 GB recommended

  • Windows: 2 GB minimum, at least 3 GB recommended

  • MacOS X: 1 GB minimum, at least 2 GB recommended

Installation Directories

Project WebSynergy software is distributed in one of several different downloadable ZIP packages, depending on your operating system and the version of GlassFish Application Server software you choose to use. In general, the default WebSynergy installation directory is whatever directory you unzip the WebSynergy installation package into.

Throughout this document, the directory in which you have unzipped the WebSynergy package is referred to as ws_install_dir.

Platform-Specific Path Separators

The instructions and examples in this document use UNIX-style forward slash (/) path separators in file and command names. If WebSynergy is installed on a Windows system, be sure to use backslashes (\) instead of forward slashes; for example: