Windows requirements

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

**Table 1-1: System requirements for Windows NT/95/98/2K/2K3/XP**
Hardware	PC with 486 or greater Intel processor.
Operating system	Windows version supporting Java VM version 1.4 or later.
Memory	16MB.
Free disk space	10MB for default options.
Java Developer’s Kit (JDK)	Sun JDK 1.4.x or later.
Database	One of the following: Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SQL Server® System 10, version 10.0.2, through Adaptive Server Enterprise version 12.x) Sybase SQL Anywhere® 5.5 or later, running Open Server™ Gateway dbos50 SQL Anywhere 5.5 is no longer supported. Sybase SQL Anywhere version 6.0 through 8.x The following features in jConnect 6.0 require Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.x or later: Support for unichar datatypes Support for date and time datatypes Support for wide-column data Support for outer join syntax Support for Sybase Failover in high availability systems (“HA Failover”) Implementation of a DynamicClassLoader (also available in Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.x and later) Support for distributed transaction management: Java Transaction API (JTA) and Java Transaction Services (JTS) For more information on these features, see the jConnect for JDBC Programmer’s Reference.
Web browser	Any browser that supports JDK 1.4.x or later.
Other Sybase products (optional)	Adaptive Server IQ, OmniConnect™, DirectConnect™.
IDE (optional)	Any Java application development environment, such as JBuilder or Visual J++.
Web server (optional)	For jConnect’s TDS-tunnelling servlet, any Web server that supports the HTTPS protocol and javax.servlet interfaces.

Table 1-1: System requirements for Windows NT/95/98/2K/2K3/XP

Hardware

PC with 486 or greater Intel processor.

Operating system

Windows version supporting Java VM version 1.4 or later.

Memory

16MB.

Free disk space

10MB for default options.

Java Developer’s Kit (JDK)

Sun JDK 1.4.x or later.

Database

One of the following:

Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SQL Server® System 10, version 10.0.2, through Adaptive Server Enterprise version 12.x)
Sybase SQL Anywhere® 5.5 or later, running Open Server™ Gateway dbos50

SQL Anywhere 5.5 is no longer supported.
Sybase SQL Anywhere version 6.0 through 8.x

The following features in jConnect 6.0 require Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.x or later:

Support for unichar datatypes
Support for date and time datatypes
Support for wide-column data
Support for outer join syntax
Support for Sybase Failover in high availability systems (“HA Failover”)
Implementation of a DynamicClassLoader (also available in Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.x and later)
Support for distributed transaction management: Java Transaction API (JTA) and Java Transaction Services (JTS)

For more information on these features, see the jConnect for JDBC Programmer’s Reference.

Web browser

Any browser that supports JDK 1.4.x or later.

Other Sybase products (optional)

Adaptive Server IQ, OmniConnect™, DirectConnect™.

IDE (optional)

Any Java application development environment, such as JBuilder or Visual J++.

Web server (optional)

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

Table 1-2 lists the system requirements for installing jConnect for JDBC on UNIX or Linux.

**Table 1-2: System requirements for UNIX and Linux**
Hardware	Any UNIX or Linux platform that supports Java VM 1.4.x and later.
Operating system	Sun Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX, HP Tru64 UNIX, SGI IRIX, any vendor’s Linux installation, and so on.
Memory	16MB.
Free disk space	10MB for default options.
Java Developer's Kit (JDK)	Sun’s JDK 1.4.x or later.
Database	One of the following: Adaptive Server Enterprise, from SQL Server System 10, version 10.0.2, through Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.x Sybase SQL Anywhere 5.5 or later running Open Server Gateway dbos50 SQL Anywhere 5.5 is no longer supported. Sybase SQL Anywhere 6.0 through 8.x The following features in jConnect version 6.0 require Adaptive Server Enterprise 12.x or later: Support for unichar datatypes Support for date and time datatypes Support for wide-column data Support for outer join syntax Support for Sybase Failover in high availability systems (“HA Failover”) Implementation of a DynamicClassLoader (also available in Adaptive Server Anywhere 6.x and later) Support for distributed transaction management: Java Transaction API (JTA) and Java Transaction Services (JTS) For more information on these features, see the jConnect for JDBC Programmer’s Reference.
Web browser	Any browser that supports JDK 1.4.x or later.
Other Sybase products (optional)	Adaptive Server IQ, OmniConnect, DirectConnect.
Web server (optional)	For jConnect’s TDS-tunnelling servlet, any Web server that supports the HTTPS protocol and javax.servlet interfaces.

Table 1-2: System requirements for UNIX and Linux

Hardware

Any UNIX or Linux platform that supports Java VM 1.4.x and later.

Operating system

Sun Solaris, HP UX, IBM AIX, HP Tru64 UNIX, SGI IRIX, any vendor’s Linux installation, and so on.

Memory

16MB.

Free disk space

10MB for default options.

Java Developer's Kit (JDK)

Sun’s JDK 1.4.x or later.