Minimum Software Requirements

You must have the following software installed to run blojsom.

• Java 2 Platform Standard Edition (J2SE) 1.4
• Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 compliant application server. Tomcat, Resin, or Jetty

General Notes

The following installation instructions assume you have downloaded and installed Tomcat.

If any of the options don't make sense, you probably don't need to change them. If you do feel you need to change an option and it still doesn't make sense as to what you are changing, let us know and we'll clarify the documentation.

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Installation and Configuration

blojsom Quickstart

• Quickstart is a packaged version of blojsom that you can download, deploy, and run with absolutely no setup required!

blojsom Detailed Installation and Configuration Guides

If you'd like to configure blojsom before running it, you can take a look at either of the following documents.

• The 5 minute installation and configuration guide will help you get blojsom up and running quickly if you want to control more specifics about your blojsom installation.

• The detailed installation and configuration guide contains more detailed descriptions of the configuration files and their options.

Server-specific Installation Guides

• Tomcat
• JBoss
• Resin
• Jetty
• Orion

Users have also reported that blojsom works with the following application servers.

• JRun 4
• OC4J

• Glassfish

Configuring Internationalization Support Make sure your application server is set to handle requests using UTF-8. For example, our frequently asked questions page has a note on enabling internationalization support in Tomcat's connector handler.