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Technical RequirementsThis document lists the supported client and server platforms for CRX. Day provides several levels of support, both for our recommended configurations and for other configurations. Please refer to the Installation Guide for detailed instructions and notes for installing and runninng CRX on the supported platforms.
Recommended Configurations Day recommends these configurations and provides full support as part of the standard software maintenance agreement. The configuration is tested and known bugs are fixed. Issues that are submitted by customers in the form of a fully qualified request are addressed in future releases.
Note Note: In previous releases, Day used three different support levels for the fully supported configurations (A,B,C). Currently the supported platforms are all on level A. Configurations with Optional Support Agreement Day expects these platforms to work. Support is available as an optional add on to the standard software maintenance agreement.
Unsupported Configurations
CRX works with the following server platforms:
CRX works with the following virtual machines in cloud computing environments:
Note EC2 optional support also needs compliance to Day's support policy for all other system components (operating system, JVM, etc). CRX works with the following Java Runtime Environments (JREs):
(*) For JRE 1.4.2, CRX core repository is supported. CRX Quickstart, Launchpad, and Package Manager require at least JRE 1.5.x. CRX runs on the following application servers. You can run CRX without an application server, but you need a Servlet Engine. CRX ships with Day’s Servlet Engine, formerly known as CQSE, which you can use freely and which is fully supported.
The following platforms are supported for the Dispatcher, Day’s caching and load balancing solution:
This section provides special notes and more detailed information about running CRX on certain platforms.
Windows 2003 Windows 2003 with SP2 cannot connect to WebDAV. See Microsoft - Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306) for full details of the manual updates that need to be made. Windows Vista Windows Vista requires SP2 to connect to WebDAV. To successfully connect with Vista SP2, basic authentication for webclients must be enabled. This requires a change in the windows registry to enable basic authentication on the client computer:
See Microsoft Support KB 841215.
Java Runtime Environments
Note Java Versions. Generally, at least JRE 1.5 is recommended, as the following CRX components or features, introduced in CRX 1.4 or 1.4.1, require at least JRE 1.5: CRX Launchpad, CRX Package Manager, CRX Quickstart. If JRE 1.4.2 is required due to other project/deployment dependencies, CRX core repository (crx-explorer_crx.war) can still run with this Java version. In this case, the Package Manager is not supported. Note Java Distributions. The CRX application requires only a Java Virtual Machine to run, which is provided by the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) distribution. Generally Day recommends using the Java Development Kit (JDK) distribution, which is a typical requirement of the Java application servers in which CRX runs. Both JRE and JDK distributions are a part of the Java Standard Edition (Java SE). Note Java Environment Suppliers. The IBM and HP Java environments are only supported on IBM and HP server platforms, respectively. For all non-IBM, non-HP platforms, the Sun JRE is supported. Application Servers Note Servlet API Versions. CRX Launchpad web development environment, based on Apache Sling, requires a servlet engine supporting Servlet API version 2.4. All other components of CRX, including the JCR repository and CRX web application, also work with servlet engines supporting Servlet API version 2.3. Note Application Server Support. CRX is expected to work with any modern application servers/servlet engines (that support at least Servlet API 2.3), including popular open source products like Jetty, Apache Tomcat, Apache Geronimo or Sun GlassFish. Day recommends stable, non-deprecated versions of these application servers (information available on supplier websites). For production use, Day offers optional support for these platforms. Note QA Note. CRX on IBM WebSphere 6 application server was tested with the IBM Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4.2 under Linux. To install a CRX instance, you need the following:
Note Note: The JRE is no longer bundled with CRX as it was in versions prior to CRX 1.4.1. You can obtain JRE 1.5 or higher from the Sun web site. Note CRX Quickstart requires create and write privileges within the installation directory. Ensure that the user installing CRX has these privileges for the chosen directory. The CRX repository consists of two parts:
Day recommends that you use the tar persistence manager, which is preferred. If you install the two parts on separate computers (for example if you use your central database server for persistent storage), make sure that the CRX instance has excellent access to the repository. Lags or elongated response times in the communication between the CRX instance and the persistent storage may cause severe performance issues.
If you use a database persistence manager to store the CRX data in an external database (that is, a database on a server that runs independently from CRX), you need to set up the database before installing CRX. By default, CRX 1.4.1 uses the tar persistence manager. If you need to configure a database persistence manager, see Custom Installation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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