Installation Information

This document covers the following topics:


Installation Variants

Application Designer is a software component which is deployed as a web application into a servlet container. You typically add this software component to your existing web applications or you build new web applications around it.

Application Designer is delivered as a web archive file (.war). This file needs to be deployed into an existing servlet container.

Hardware and Software Requirements

Client

Software prerequisites:

Hardware prerequisites:

  • PC with 1 GHz or higher and 256 MB main memory for "comfort usage", or

  • corresponding UNIX workstation.

Server

Software prerequisites:

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (x86)
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional (x64)
Microsoft Windows 8 Professional (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x86)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 (x64)
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (x64)
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11
AIX 7.1 64-bit
HP-UX 11i v3 64-bit (Itanium)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (zSeries 64-bit)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T (x86-64)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (zSeries 64-bit)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T (x86-64)
z/OS 1.12
z/OS 1.13

Application Designer requires a servlet container supporting the Servlet 2.3 specification: Tomcat, IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogic, JBoss, and others.

Hardware prerequisites:

  • PC with one Intel Pentium processor, 1GHz or better, 512 MB main memory or more, and approximately 100 MB available memory on hard disk, or

  • corresponding UNIX workstation.