The setup file will check your machine for whether the prerequisite software is installed and will install any missing prerequisites and the product components.
Eclipse requirements
- Though
Enterprise Developer does not support the 64-bit Eclipse, you can use the 32-bit Eclipse to create both 32-bit and 64-bit applications.
- Enterprise Developer requires a 32-bit Java installation.
- Enterprise Developer ships with Eclipse 4.4.2. After the installation, you can install the
Enterprise Developer plug-in into other instances of Eclipse available on the same machine. The supported versions are 4.2 and 4.3 for the 32-bit Eclipse only. See
Installing
Enterprise Developer into other instances of Eclipse for instructions.
Other software requirements for Windows
- Oracle's Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 or Java 8 is required
to run the Eclipse IDE,
to execute COBOL JVM code and for native COBOL and Java interoperability. The setup file installs Java 8 u51 32-bit. You can download Oracle's Java EE from
Oracle's Web site and install it anywhere on your machine.
Note: If you have Java 7 installed on your machine and you do not want the setup file to install Java 8, you can install the product silently and use the
skipjre=1 command line option to skip installing Java 8. See
Installing Silently
on Windows for more details.
- The setup file also installs .NET Framework v4.5.2 and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 and 2012 Redistributables.
See the
Java Support Considerations for the Eclipse IDE in the
Known Issues and Restrictions section in your product help for considerations that apply to using the Eclipse IDE and Java.
Software requirements for UNIX/Linux
These are the software requirements for
Micro Focus Enterprise Developer UNIX Components:
- Xterm, the terminal emulator for the X Window System, is part of your UNIX/Linux distribution but is not installed by default. Use your UNIX/Linux installation media to install it.
- Oracle's Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 7 or Java 8 is required
to run the Eclipse IDE,
to execute COBOL JVM code and for native COBOL and Java interoperability. The setup file installs Java 8 u51 32-bit. You can download Oracle's Java EE from
Oracle's Web site and install it anywhere on your machine.
Note:
- On AIX and zLinux, you need to have IBM's JDK. The earliest supported release of IBM's JDK is 7.0 Service Refresh 8. You can get IBM's AIX JDK from
IBM's Web site.
- On HP-UX, you need to have HP-UX JDK. The earliest supported release of HP-UX is JDK 7.0.11. You can get the HP-UX Java JDK from
HP's Web site.
- You need to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable. When installing the product, set this variable to a 32-bit Java installation or the installation terminates. For example, execute the following:
JAVA_HOME=java_install_dir
where
java_install_dir is the path to the JAVA installation directory such as
/usr/java/javan.n
- You need to add
$JAVA_HOME/bin to your system PATH variable. To do this, execute:
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
- You need to set the LANG environment variable to pick up localized messages. The LANG settings are English and Japanese only.
Other Requirements
Important: This release requires version 10000.2.990 or later of the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. For local servers, you do not need to install it separately, as the setup file installs a new
Enterprise Developer client and a new licensing server on the same machine.
If you have a network server, you must update the license server before installing the product as the client is not able to communicate with license servers of versions older than 10000.2.660. On Windows, you can check the version of your license server by clicking
Help > About in the
Micro Focus License Administration tool. To check the version of the license server on UNIX, run
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/mfcesver or
/var/microfocuslicensing/bin/cesadmintool.sh.
You can download the new version of the license server software from the
Micro Focus SupportLine Web site:
http://supportline.microfocus.com.
