Introduction

The DSA/Catalog web application relies upon the following software components, which must be installed and configured before installing the DSA.

Java Virtual Machine

Java (J2SE) version 1.4. Available from http://java.sun.com/j2se/downloads.html.

(NB Be aware that Java 1.4 does not support IP v6.)

Web Service Manager

As the DSA/Catalog web application is provided in "Web Archive" (WAR) form, it needs a web service manager or container to present itself to the web. We have used and tested it with Tomcat.

Tomcat Server

Requires version 4.1 or later; we recommend version 5.0.28 or version 5.0.19.

Available from http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/.