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//
// ============LICENSE_START=======================================================
// Copyright (C) 2016-2018 Ericsson. All rights reserved.
// ================================================================================
// This file is licensed under the CREATIVE COMMONS ATTRIBUTION 4.0 INTERNATIONAL LICENSE
// Full license text at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
// ============LICENSE_END=========================================================
//
// @author Sven van der Meer (sven.van.der.meer@ericsson.com)
//
== Requirements
APEX is 100% written in Java and runs on any platform that supports a JVM, e.g. Windows, Unix, Cygwin.
Some APEX applications (such as the monitoring application) come as web archives, they do require a war-capable web server installed.
=== Installation Requirements
- Downloaded distribution: JAVA runtime environment (JRE, Java 8 or later, APEX is tested with the Oracle Java)
- Building from source: JAVA development kit (JDK, Java 8 or later, APEX is tested with the Oracle Java)
- A web archive capable webserver, for instance for the monitoring application
** for instance link:https://tomcat.apache.org/[Apache Tomcat]
- Sufficient rights to install APEX on the system
- Installation tools depending on the installation method used:
** ZIP to extract from a ZIP distribution
*** Windows for instance link:http://www.7-zip.org/[7Zip]
** TAR and GZ to extract from that TAR.GZ distribution
*** Windows for instance link:http://www.7-zip.org/[7Zip]
** RPM to install from the RPM distribution
*** Install: `sudo apt-get install rpm`
** DPKG to install from the DEB distribution
*** Install: `sudo apt-get install dpkg`
=== Feature Requirements
APEX supports a number of features that require extra software being installed.
- link:https://kafka.apache.org/[Apache Kafka] to connect APEX to a Kafka message bus
- link:https://hazelcast.com/[Hazelcast] to use distributed hash maps for context
- link:http://infinispan.org/[Infinispan] for distributed context and persistence
- link:https://www.docker.com/[Docker] to run APEX inside a Docker container
=== Build (Install from Source) Requirements
Installation from source requires a few development tools
- GIT to retrieve the source code
- Java SDK, Java version 8 or later
- Apache Maven 3 (the APEX build environment)
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