Installing jConnect for JDBC

Reviewing system requirements

This section lists system requirements for Windows, UNIX, and Linux.

Windows requirements

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

Table 1-1: System requirements for Windows 2000, 2003, and 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 Java Developer's Kit (JDK) 1.4.2 or later.
Web browser	Any browser that supports JDK 1.4.x or later.
Other Sybase products (optional)	Adaptive Server® IQ, OmniConnect[TM], DirectConnect[TM].
IDE (optional)	Any Java application development environment, such as JBuilder.
Web server (optional)	For jConnect's Tabular Data Stream[TM] (TDS) tunnelling servlet, any Web server that supports the HTTPS protocol and javax.servlet interfaces.
Database	One of the following: Adaptive Server® Enterprise 12.5.x (through Adaptive Server Enterprise version 15.x) Sybase SQL Anywhere version 7.x through 9.x

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 1.4.2 or later.
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.
Database	One of the following: Adaptive Server® Enterprise 12.5.x (through Adaptive Server Enterprise version 15.x) Sybase SQL Anywhere version 7.x through 9.x