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This page describes the system requirements for Crowd and CrowdID.

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Hardware Requirements

The hardware required to run Crowd depends significantly on the number of applications and users that your installation will have, as well as the maximum number of concurrent requests that the system will experience during peak hours.

During evaluation Crowd will run well on any reasonably fast workstation computer (eg. 1.5+Ghz processor). Memory requirements depend on how many applications and users you will store, but 256MB is enough for most evaluation purposes.

Most users start by downloading Crowd, and running it on their local computer. It is easy to migrate Crowd to your enterprise infrastructure later.

We would appreciate if you let us know what hardware configuration works for you. Please create a support request in JIRA with your hardware specification and mention the number of applications and users in your Crowd installation.

While some of our customers run Crowd on SPARC-based hardware, Atlassian only officially supports Crowd running on x86 hardware and 64-bit derivatives of x86 hardware.

Software Requirements

  1. Sun JDK 1.5 or higher. You can download the Java SE Development Kit (JDK) from the Sun website.
  2. Note: Once the JDK is installed, you will need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable, pointing to the root directory of the JDK. Some JDK installers set this automatically (check by typing 'echo %JAVA_HOME%' in a DOS prompt, or 'echo $JAVA_HOME' in a shell). If it is not set, please see Setting JAVA_HOME.
  3. J2EE 1.4 application server or a Servlet 2.4 web container. NOTE: Crowd ships with Apache Tomcat (5.5.x).
  4. JDBC-compliant database that is supported by Hibernate. NOTE: Crowd ships with a built-in HSQL database, which is fine for evaulation purposes. For production environments we recommend configuring Crowd to use an external database.
  5. If you are deploying a WAR installation, ensure that the following JAR files are deployed in the shared lib folder on the application server:

All of these JAR files are available in the Crowd Standalone Distribution zip file, available on the Crowd download centrejta-1.0.1B.jar, mail-1.4.jar and activation-1.1.jar in CROWD\apache-tomcat-5.5.20\common\lib.

Supported Databases

The following database servers are supported by Hibernate:

  • HypersonicSQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MySQL
  • Oracle 10g (tested on 10.2.0.1)

Of these, the following databases have been tested and are supported by Atlassian:

 

Supported J2EE Servers

The following J2EE servers are supported:

  • JBoss (4.2.2 GA)
  • Resin (3.0.x) — tested on 3.0.23. Resin versions 3.1.x and later are not compatible with Crowd. Please refer to CWD-1192.
  • Tomcat 5.5.x (tested on 5.5.20) and Tomcat 6.

Next Step

Installing Crowd and CrowdID

Vote for more supported application servers

If you are interested in support for other application servers, please make your requests via our issue tracker. In particular, you can vote for the following existing requests:

  • CWD-1192 — Provide support for versions of Resin newer than 3.0.26
  • CWD-950 — Provide official support for Websphere
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