System Requirements for SoftSlate Commerce

• Java Compiler and Runtime Environment. 

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested with the JDK 6, 7, 8, and 9, and may work on other versions. The JDK may be downloaded free of charge from Oracle.

  If using JDK 9 and if using some of the integrations SoftSlate has, you must enable some JDK modules. The modules are enabled by default in JDK versions prior to JDK 9, but if you are using JDK 9 or later, you need to enable them. The easiest way to do so it so add this flag to the java command as you execute it:

  		 --add-modules java.xml.bind --add-modules java.xml.ws
  							

• Java Application Server. 

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested with Apache Tomcat 6, 7, and 9, and may work on other versions. Apache Tomcat may be downloaded free of charge from http://tomcat.apache.org .

  Users have reported running SoftSlate Commerce successfully on Resin, JBoss, and BEA WebLogic. It may work on other compliant J2EE Web Containers as well.

• Database. 

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested with MySQL 3.23, 4.0, 4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 8.0 and may work on other versions. MySQL may be downloaded free of charge from http://www.mysql.com/downloads.

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested with PostgreSQL 8.0. PostgreSQL may be downloaded free of charge from: http://www.postgresql.org/download.

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested with Microsoft SQL Server 2008. Information is available on the Microsoft Web site: http://www.microsoft.com/sql.

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested with Oracle 10g Express Edition. Oracle 10g may be downloaded free of charge from: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/xe/index.html .

  Note that the database used by SoftSlate Commerce need not be installed on the same server that runs the application itself. During the Installer, you can specify the host name of the database server.

• Operating System. 

  SoftSlate Commerce has been tested on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux, and should work well on any operating system supported by Java.