System requirements for DBsurfer WEBserver

• JDBC drivers for your database(s)
• HTTP page server to display the applet and any ancillary pages
• Java WEBStart and Java 1.4+ running on client machines for secure server option
• Separate HTTPS IP address available to port 8004 for secure server option
• Host machine for DBsurfer Java2-based application server: Unix, Windows, Macintosh. Not applicable to mainframes, except under special arrangements.
• Permission to use port 8004 for xml/SOAP data transfer in parallel with standard HTTP port.

If you are installing under IIS, our application server program requires permission to read from and write to the HTTP server directory, as shown in the diagram below.

The "hyperserver" in the diagram is an internal database server for federated queries across accessible databases, regardless of location.

Note that database servers can be collocated and/or remote.