Checking installation prerequisites

Before you deploy BIRT Viewer Toolkit, ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

Java Development Kit 5 or 6 (JDK)

Use the JAR utility included in the JDK to decompress and compress the BIRT Viewer Toolkit archive. BIRT Viewer Toolkit also requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) included in the JDK.

An application server

BIRT Viewer Toolkit runs as a web application in the application server, such as Apache Tomcat or JBoss.

Administrators group privileges on Windows, or root privileges on Linux or UNIX

Permission to start and stop the application server

A Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Web Server configured for the same application platform, either 32-bit or 64-bit