In order to support various operating systems and environments (embedded and otherwise), the Expressroom development team has chosen Java™ as the implementation language and the Java 2 platform as the deployment environment.
Client Requirements
Currently, any operating environment with the following characteristics will support Expressroom as a client:
Java Support:
• Support for Java 1.4 JRE (Java 2 platform); comes bundled with Expressroom
Operating Systems:
• Sun™ Solaris™ 8 or later
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 3 or later
• Red Hat® Linux 7.1 or later
• Microsoft® Windows® 2003
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home and Professional Edition
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional
• Microsoft® Windows® 98
• Any platform offering 100% support for Java 2 platform
RAM:
• 512 MB (recommended)
Disk space:
• 200 MB for client tools, documentation, and APIs
Server Requirements
• Currently, any operating environment with the following characteristics will support Expressroom as its server:
Java Support:
• Support for Java Virtual Machine that satisfy the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition, version 1.4 or later
Web servers/servlet execution engines:
• Apache Tomcat Web Server and Servlet Engine 4.1.31
• Apache Tomcat Web Server and Servlet Engine 5.0.28
• Apache HTTP Server version 1.3.28 (or later) with Apache Tomcat Servlet Engine 4.1.31
• Apache HTTP Server version 1.3.28 (or later) with Apache Tomcat Servlet Engine 5.0.28
• Apache HTTP Server version 1.3.28 (or later) with Resin® 1.2.5 or later
• Microsoft® IIS 4.0 (or later) with Resin® 1.2.5 (or later) Servlet Engine
• Microsoft® IIS 4.0 (or later) with Apache Tomcat 4.1.31
• Microsoft® IIS 4.0 (or later) with Apache Tomcat 5.0.28
• Sun™ ONE Web Server (aka Sun™ Java System Web Server) 6.1 (or later)
• iPlanet Web Server, Enterprise Edition 4.1 or later
• BEA WebLogic® 4.51 (or later) Service Pack 9 or later
• Other application servers that support JSDK 2.1 (or later) and JSP 1.1 (or later)
Operating Systems:
• Sun™ Solaris™ 8 or later
• Red Hat® Linux 7.1 or later
• Red Hat® Enterprise Linux 3 or later
• Microsoft® Windows® 2003 Server
• Microsoft® Windows® XP Home and Professional Edition
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional
RAM:
• 2 GB (recommended)
Disk space:
• 500 MB for Expressroom plus storage requirements imposed by Web server in use (including log files) plus enough space available for content storage
Processor:
• 500 mHz Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent recommended minimum
Video display:
• minimum 256 colors
Staging Server Recommendations
• Dual or Quad Core Xeon 3GHz 2MB cache or above
• 8 GB RAM
• RAID-5 Disk Controller
• 5 x 73GB Ultra 320 SCSI Drives (total disk space subject to customer requirements)
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet controller
• Redundant Power Supply and Fan
Live Server Recommendations
• Single or Dual Xeon 2GHz 2MB cache or above
• 4 GB RAM
• 10/100/1000 Ethernet controller
• SCSI disk controller
• 1 146GB Ultra 320 SCSI Drive (total disk space subject to customer requirements)