[cle-release-team] System requirements draft for 2.9.0

[Aaron Zeckoski]

I would say Tomcat 7 is definitely supported and recommended. I think
most people are probably still running Java 6 though I believe we did
some testing on Java 7 (hopefully someone else will chime in on this).

-AZ


On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Neal Caidin
<nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org> wrote:
> I thought support for Tomcat 7 and Java 7 was a major feature of this
> release? Should the wording be :
>
> "Tomcat 6 and Oracle's Sun Java SE 6, a.k.a Java 1.6, are the preferred
> versions to use with the Sakai CLE. Tomcat 7 and Java 7 are also supported."
>
> ?
>
> In which case we should document what configuration settings are necessary
> for Tomcat 7 and Java 7 use.
>
> I'm inclined to remove all the institutional examples.
>
> Thanks for your feedback!
>
> Neal
>
>
>
> On Oct 22, 2012, at 1:06 AM, Steve Swinsburg <steve.swinsburg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> For the record, the security issue they are talking about does not affect
> server installations of Java, it was only applets.
>
> Deployers need to install the Oracle JDK to install Sakai. End users don't
> need anything except a browser (and the Java browser plugin for the only
> applet in Sakai, the Samigo audio recording m,ovule, but they are prompted
> for that if they don't have it, as per that article).
>
>  I don't believe we have tested enough on Open JDK to suggest its use for
> 2.9 yet but could be wrong.
>
> Also, we need people to be running Java 6, not 7.
>
> For 3: Definitely need Tomcat, whether people run a normal web server in
> front is up to them, but that is the most common setup in production
> systems, and I'd say that Apache HTTPD is the most common.
> For 4: I don't know how current those systems are, I haven't heard from
> anyone there in a while.
> For 5: IIRC we dropped MySQL for 2.8 in favour of MySQL 5.1. So 5.0 is not
> recommended/supported.
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> On 22/10/2012, at 6:47 AM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
> wrote:
>
> Question 2 is answered -
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/apple-drops-java-mac_n_1989623.html?ir=Technology
>
> There should be a Java 7, but supplied by Oracle, not Apple.
>
>
> -- Neal
>
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have copied the requirements from 2.8 and started modifying for 2.9.0
> release notes.
>
> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/DOC/%5BEarly+Draft%5D+Sakai+CLE+2.x+system+requirements+for+most+recent+release
>
> Here are some of my questions, at least to start:
>
> 1) Should I just remove all the examples of institutions and there
> configurations?  I have no idea if these are up-to-date or not and it would
> take a lot of work to find out.  Okay with that?
>
> 2) I wrote "You may need to install Java SE 7 on Mac OS X.".  Is that true?
> There does not seem to be an Apple release of Java 7 yet.
>
> 3) It says "The Sakai Community is overwhelmingly an Apache http/Apache
> Tomcat user community… ".  Is that still true? What about nginx and others?
> not catching up?
>
> 4) "A few schools such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and
> the Universidad de Guadalajara report deploying Sakai on JBoss." - more
> specific examples. Should I nuke'em?
>
> 5) "Sakai CLE production installations typically run either Oracle 10g/11g
> or MySQL 5.0/5.1/5.5."   . I added Mysql 5.5 based on recent CLE
> discussions. Is MySql 5.0 still supported? What about Oracle versions?
>
> 6) "Clustering, file storage and load balancing strategies" - I have no idea
> about this section. Volunteer to review?
>
> 7) External Authentication choices looks good, unless their are any major
> ones missing.
>
> 8) "Integrating with student information systems" - I know there are a lot
> of options. I also know this is very important to schools. Anyone want to
> take a shot at reviewing?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Neal Caidin
>
> Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
> nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
> Skype: nealkdin
> AIM: ncaidin at aol.com
>
>
>
>
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