Reviewing system requirements

Table 1-1 lists the system requirements for installing jConnect for JDBC.

Table 1-1: System requirements

Hardware and operating system

Any version of these platforms that support Java 6:

  • Apple Mac OS X Intel

  • HP HP-UX Itanium 32-bit or 64-bit

  • HP HP-UX PA-RISC 32-bit or 64-bit

  • IBM AIX POWER 32-bit or 64-bit

  • Linux x86 32-bit or x86-64 64-bit

  • Linux POWER 32-bit or 64-bit

  • Sun Solaris x86-64 32-bit or 64-bit

  • Sun Solaris SPARC 32-bit or 64-bit

  • Microsoft Windows x86 32-bit or x86-64 64-bit

For the most current list of supported operating systems, see the Sybase platform certifications page

Memory

16MB

Disk space

12MB for the default options.

Space requirement by component:

  • JDBC driver – 9MB

  • Ribo – 3MB

NoteRibo is dependent on the JDBC driver; when you install Ribo, the JDBC driver is also installed.

Java Developer's Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Environment (JRE)

JDK 6 or later, or JRE 6 or later.

Other Sybase products (optional)

Sybase IQ, OmniConnect™, DirectConnect.

Web server (optional)

For jConnect’s TDS-tunnelling servlet, any Web server that supports the HTTPS protocol and javax.servlet interfaces.