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Chapter 3. System Requirements for CloverETL Designer

CloverETL Designer is distributed in three different forms:

Full installation, which is recommended, includes all the necessary environments and applications, i.e., no prerequisites are required.
Online plugin fits if all prerequisites described below reside in your computer; CloverETL Designer will be installed online using the corresponding CloverETL update site.
Offline plugin is applicable under the same conditions as the online plugin but this time CloverETL Designer will be installed offline by executing of the previously downloaded archived file.

Depending on the selected form of distribution and the operating system in use, the following requirements must be fulfilled:

Generally

supported OS are Microsoft Windows 32bit, Linux 32bit, Linux 64bit, and Mac OS X Cocoa
at least 512M RAM

Full installation: all the necessary included in the installer.
Plugin installation (both online and offline):
- Eclipse Platform 3.5 with RSE + GEF
- Java 1.6+ (for full set of CloverETL Designer features Java Development Kit (JDK) is recommended)

Full installation: all the necessary included in the archived file.
Plugin installation (both online and offline):
- Eclipse Platform 3.5 with RSE + GEF
- Java 1.6+ (for full set of CloverETL Designer features Java Development Kit (JDK) is recommended)

Full installation: all the necessary included in the archived file.
Plugin installation (both online and offline):
- Eclipse Platform 3.5 with RSE + GEF
- Java 1.6+ (for full set of CloverETL Designer features Java Development Kit (JDK) is recommended)

	Important
	Please make sure your default Java system is set to 1.6 or newer. Go to Finder → Applications → Utilities → Java → Java preferences and reorder the available Java installations so that Java 6 is at the top of the list.