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• JDK 1.6 update 21 or later (JDK 1.7 is not supported as of 2014/0408; the SSP development team has also observed somewhat better GC performance with the Sun/Oracle JDK vs OpenJDK)
  
  • Download Location: http://java.sun.com

  • Environment Variable: JAVA_HOME

    Tip
    title Java Environment Variable
    JAVA_HOME=/path/to/your/java (ie: /usr/local/java or C:\java\jdk) (optional) PATH= append the bin subdirectory to the path statement

• Tomcat 6.X (Tomcat 7 is not supported as of 2014/04)

  • Instructions for installing and configuring Tomcat for the SSP-Platform (uPortal 4.0)

    Warning
    title Tomcat Configuration
    It is important to complete sections: Environment Variables, Shared Libraries, Shared Sessions, Java Heap.  Minimally, the catalina.properties file must contain:   shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/lib/*.jar

  • Additionally, a performance improvement has been experienced by enabling compression in Tomcat

    Tip
    Add compression="force" to the server.xml in the connector like the following:   <Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1 connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="8443" emptySessionPath="true" compression="force" />

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