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.
The following requirements must be fulfilled in order for CloverETL to run:
supported OS are Microsoft Windows 32 bit, Microsoft Windows 64 bit, Linux 32 bit, Linux 64bit, and Mac OS X Cocoa
at least 512MB of RAM
Full installation
Software requirements:
None, the installer includes Eclipse Platform 3.6.2 for Java developers with RSE + GEF + Eclipse Web Tools Platform.
Plugin installation
Software requirements:
Minimum: Eclipse Platform 3.5 + GEF. Java 6 Runtime Enviroment.
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Important If you are installing CloverETL as a plugin to Eclipse 3.5, do not install the ""CloverETL Text editor for XML properties" feature, as it requires Eclipse components that are not available in version 3.5.
Recommended: Eclipse Platform 3.6.2 with RSE + GEF + Eclipse Web Tools Platform. Java 6 Development Kit
Eclipse 3.7 is fully supported.
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For Mac OS users: Please make sure your default Java system is set to 1.6 or newer. Go to → → → → and reorder the available Java installations so that Java 6 is at the top of the list. |
Related Links
Eclipse Classic download page - choose the proper version for your OS
JDK download page
Useful links for understanding the difference between Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE)