Software Requirements

There are two portions to Connect Daily. The first is the portion that runs on a server. The second is the client computer which just requires a supported browser.

The server portion of Connect Daily requires four components. They are:

Operating System Requirements - Server

The only requirement for the server portion of Connect Daily is that your operating system has a Java SDK available for it and that your operating system supports TCP/IP. We have tested Connect Daily or have customers using Connect Daily on the following operating systems:

• AIX
• FreeBSD
• HPUX
• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Microsoft Windows
  • Server 2003/2008
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows 2000

Java SDK or Java Runtime Environment

Since Connect Daily is a Java Servlet application, it requires a Java SDK or Java Runtime Engine version 1.5 or higher.

You can download Java from http://java.sun.com/.

If you do not see a Java SDK for your operating system at the Sun Java site, contact your operating system vendor.

SQL Database

If you are using Microsoft Windows, we provide an Access database that can be used. Windows 2000 and higher come with the Access ODBC drivers pre-installed, which is all that is required. You do not need to have the full version of Microsoft Access installed.

If you are not using MS Windows or you would like to use a different database, we support the following:

• IBM DB2
• Microsoft Access (ODBC drivers already installed for Windows 2000 and higher. Complete MS Access installation not required.)
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000, SQL Server 2005 or SQL Server 2008
• MySQL 5.0 or higher
• Oracle 9 or higher
• PostgreSQL 7.1.3 or higher
• Sybase SQL Anywhere 6.0 or higher

Database Requirements for Porting

Connect Daily is highly portable across SQL implementations. It can be ported to any database that supports the following features:

• JDBC 2 Driver
• SQL 92 Outer Joins
• Views
• Declarative Referential Integrity with Cascading Deletes
• Identity, Sequence, or Autonumber capability, including the ability to retrieve the new values via JDBC.

If your database meets the features listed above but is not currently supported, please contact MH Software, Inc. We can create a custom port for you. Generally, porting to a new database will take a developer about 4-6 hours.

Java Servlet Container

Connect Daily requires a Java Servlet Specification 2.3 or 2.4 compliant servlet container. If you do not have a servlet engine, we recommend the open source servlet engine Apache Tomcat.

The servlet engine can run on the same machine as your web server and can usually be configured so that requests to your web server for the calendar are forwarded to the servlet engine.

For a complete list of Java Servlet containers, go to:

http://www.javaskyline.com/serv.html