Software Prerequisites for deploying and running FIRMS Web Services within the OMII Container

Community Grids Lab, Indiana University

Purpose of this file is to list the software required to deploy and run FIRMS (WS-ReliableMessaging and WS-Reliability) services within the OMII container.

1) This software require a Java Virtual machine which is version 1.4 or above. This software can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com/

Note: Please do not forget to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

2) Apache Ant. This is useful for installation/compilation and other related functionality. ANT is an open-source Apache project that is available from http://ant.apache.org.

NOTE: If you have used ANT before and have it already installed on your machine, no further steps are required. For those who are new to ANT we have a couple of recommendations. Do not forget to include ANT_HOME/bin and JAVA_HOME/bin in path. You also need to make sure that the JAXP 1.1 XML compliant parser’s (recommend xerces from http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/) jar files viz. xercesImpl.jar and xml-apis.jar --- are available within your ANT_Home/lib directory.

3) PostgreSQL database version 7.3 or above. This is generally available with OMII Container Installation. To check if PostgreSQL is installed, execute the following command at the shell prompt: “pg_ctl –version”. If it is not installed, it can be downloaded from http://www.postgresql.org.