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# 1 Prerequisites for Installing Oracle TopLink

This chapter provides information that you should review before installing Oracle TopLink (TopLink). It contains the following topics:

- System Requirements and Certifications

- Supported Databases

- License Information

## System Requirements and Certifications

The complete product requirements list and the latest certification information for 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) is available at:

    http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/as_certification_r3_1013.html

Additional Requirements

TopLink requires a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) compatible with JDK 1.4.2 (or higher). TopLink also requires internet access to use URL-based schemas and hosted documentation.

## Supported Databases

TopLink is an infrastructure-based solution that simplifies the integration of Java objects to any JDBC (Java Database Connectivity) compliant database. TopLink supports JDBC 3.0 drivers that comply with JDBC 3.0 object-relational extensions. Contact your database and JDBC vendor to determine which object-relational extensions they support.

For TopLink Workbench to retrieve table information from the database, the database driver must support the following JDBC methods:

- `getTables ( )`

- `getTablesTypes ( )`

- `getImportedKeys ( )`

- `getCatalogs ( )`

- `getPrimaryKeys ( )`

## License Information

TopLink does not require a license file for TopLink Foundation Library or TopLink Workbench; however, you are not allowed to ship the TopLink Workbench or expose any of the TopLink APIs as part of an end-user application. Refer to the software license agreement for information about the limitations on including the Oracle TopLink Foundation Library JAR files, as part of a packaged end-user application.

Licensing information is available at

`http://oraclestore.oracle.com`

### Third-Party License Information

TopLink uses and includes the following software:

- Antlr

- DOM

- Java Runtime Environment

- ASM

#### Antlr

`http://www.antlr.org/rights.html`

TopLink uses Antlr for EJB QL parsing. Antlr (ANother Tool for Language Recognition), is a language tool that provides a framework for constructing recognizers, compilers, and translators from grammatical descriptions containing C++ or Java actions. The ANTLR parser and translator generator is fully in the public domain.

#### DOM

`http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/copyright-software.html`

The Document Object Model (DOM) is a specification that defines some programming language-neutral interfaces that can be used to manipulate XML and HTML documents. W3C maintains this specification. W3C also provides a Java "binding" for these interfaces. TopLink uses this "binding" to parse and manipulate XML documents.

This program contains third-party code from the World Wide Web Consortium ("W3C"). Under the terms of the W3C license, Oracle is required to provide the following notices. Note, however, that the Oracle program license that accompanied this product determines your right to use the Oracle program, including the W3C software, and the terms contained in the following notices do not change those rights.

This work (and included software, documentation such as READMEs, or other related items) is being provided by the copyright holders under the following license. By obtaining, using and/or copying this work, you (the licensee) agree that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following terms and conditions.

Permission to copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation, with or without modification, for any purpose and without fee or royalty is hereby granted, provided that you include the following on ALL copies of the software and documentation or portions thereof, including modifications:

1. The full text of this NOTICE in a location viewable to users of the redistributed or derivative work.

2. Any pre-existing intellectual property disclaimers, notices, or terms and conditions. If none exist, the W3C Software Short Notice (`http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-short-notice-20021231.html`) should be included (hypertext is preferred, text is permitted) within the body of any redistributed or derivative code.

3. Notice of any changes or modifications to the files, including the date changes were made. (We recommend you provide URLs to the location from which the code is derived.)

THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS," AND COPYRIGHT HOLDERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR THAT THE USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY THIRD PARTY PATENTS, COPYRIGHTS, TRADEMARKS OR OTHER RIGHTS.

COPYRIGHT HOLDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF ANY USE OF THE SOFTWARE OR DOCUMENTATION.

The name and trademarks of copyright holders may NOT be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to the software without specific, written prior permission. Title to copyright in this software and any associated documentation will at all times remain with copyright holders.

#### Java Runtime Environment

`http://java.sun.com/j2se/`

The Java Runtime Environment is maintained by Sun Microsystems, Inc. The Oracle TopLink installation includes JRE 1.5 by default. You may configure TopLink to run using any other compliant Java 2 VM. Java and all Java-based trademarks and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., in the U.S. and other countries.

#### ASM

ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify classes at load time, that is, just before they are loaded into the Java Virtual Machine.

`http://asm.objectweb.org/license.html`

Copyright (c) 2000-2005 INRIA, France Telecom

All rights reserved.

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1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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3. Neither the name of the copyright holders nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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