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Supported Platform Configurations
for TopBraid Suite™ Release 3.6

Prior version supported platform requirements 3.5

TopBraid Suite (TBS) Platform Requirements:  Current releases of TBS  run only on platforms (and new releases thereof) that commercially support Eclipse 3.7.0 (Indigo release), Flash 10, and compliant servlet containers (such as Tomcat) to run as fully tested production releases.  OS platform support is dependent on the Target Environments supported by Eclipse, see details at
http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?projectid=eclipse#target_environments.

CURRENTLY SUPPORTED PLATFORMS*

TopBraid Suite is deployed as a servlet application and provides capabilities for integrating data from a number of data sources. TopBraid Suite consists of three components: TopBraid Composer™ (modeling and application development), TopBraid Ensemble™ (web application assembly toolkit) and TopBraid Live™ (enterprise application platform). The following tables show the list of currently supported platforms for each of these components and supported data stores.

* Please contact TopQuadrant at composersupport@topquadrant.com for information concerning other configurations meeting the general requirements.

TOPBRAID PRODUCTS

TopBraid Composer

TopBraid Composer Standard Edition and TopBraid Composer Maestro Edition run as stand-alone applications. Composer is an enterprise-class IDE (based on Eclipse) with comprehensive support for developing ontologies and building Semantic Web applications. The following platforms are supported.

Operating SystemVersion JVM
Microsoft Windows XP (32-bit)any that satisfy TBS Platform Requirements Sun/Oracle Java 6
Microsoft Windows Vista (32-bit)any that satisfy TBS Platform Requirements Sun/Oracle Java 6
Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit, 64-bit) *any that satisfy TBS Platform Requirements Sun/Oracle Java 6
Apple Macintosh OS X (Snow Leopard)any that satisfy TBS Platform Requirements Sun/Oracle Java 6
Linuxany that satisfy TBS Platform Requirements Sun/Oracle Java 6
Ubuntu 8.10 - 11.04any that satisfy TBS Platform Requirements Sun/Oracle Java 6

* The TopBraid Live Personal Server feature of TBC-ME is not supported on Windows 7 Home Edition, and may not work correctly.

 

TopBraid Ensemble

TopBraid Ensemble is a client-side Web application that uses Adobe Flex user interface components. Ensemble is a browser-based application. The following browsers are supported.

Operating SystemBrowser Plug-ins
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, Apple OS XMicrosoft Internet Explorer 7.x or higher Adobe Flash Player 10 or higher
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, Apple OS XMozilla Firefox Adobe Flash Player 10 or higher
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, Apple OS XGoogle Chrome Adobe Flash Player 10 or higher
Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, Apple OS XSafari Adobe Flash Player 10 or higher

 

TopBraid Live and EVN Server

TopBraid Live is an enterprise application server platform for deploying Semantic Web Applications. Enerprise Vocabulary Network (EVN) is a web-based solution for simplified development and management of interconnected controlled vocabularies. Currently supported server platforms include the following.  We recommend the use of 64 bit Linux-based systems and Java. For configurations requiring use of https we recommend the use of mod_proxy_ajp to embed Tomcat inside an Apache Web Server.

Operating System KernelServlet Container JVM
Red Hat Enterprise Linux v5
64 or 32 bit		 2.6 or higher kernel Apache Tomcat 6*** Sun/Oracle Java 6
Windows*, 64 or 32 bit   Apache Tomcat 6*** Sun/Oracle Java 6
Ubuntu 9.04 - 11.04** 2.6 or higher kernelApache Tomcat 6*** Sun/Oracle Java 6

* Please contact TopQuadrant concerning use of Windows Server 2008.

**Ubuntu 9.10 may not work.

*** Tomcat 6.0.28 or higher is recommended. Tomcat 7 is currently not supported. Please contact TopQuadrant concerning other Web Application Servers.

SUPPORTED DATABASES, DATA SOURCES AND INFERENCE ENGINES

Supported Repository Database Configurations

TopBraid Composer and Live support a number of native RDF data stores, including the following:

Data source Version Support Level***  (Tier-1; Tier-2)
Oracle RDF 11gR1, 11gR2 Tier-1
Jena TDB (beta*) Tier-1
Jena SDB - Oracle Tier-1
Sesame (remote) 2.x Tier-2
Jena SDB - (Others**) Tier-2
Franz AllegroGraph****
OWLIM*****

* Deletion of TDB files from TopBraid Suite is known not to work on Windows

** Others include: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server (jTDS), PostgreSQL

*** Tier-1 support: TopBraid Composer and TopBraid Live.  TQ does regular testing for the indicated platform(s).

*** Tier-2 support: TopBraid Composer only.  Issue(s) for the platform(s) under this tier will be addressed when reported by customer(s). We do not actively test against these platform(s).

**** Please look at Franz website about support and using AllegroGraph with TopBraid software.

***** Please contact OWLIM team at OntoText about support and using OWLIM with TopBraid software.



Supported Relational Database Configurations

TopBraid Suite supports a number of relational stores using D2RQ 0.7 (for Jena SDB, see above). These include the following:

Data source Versions Support Level
Oracle 11gR1, 11gR2 Major
MySQL 5.5 Major
Microsoft SQL Server (jTDS) Minor
Sybase (jTDS) Minor
PostgreSQL Minor
DB2 Third-Party (D2RQ)

Major: Included in test suite for TopBraid Suite (TBS).

Minor: Not currently included in TBS test suite, but are known to work.

Third-Party: Supported by third-party software (D2RQ), but untested with TBS.


 

 

 

Supported Data Sources

TopBraid Composer and Live support a variety of data sources. The following data sources are supported.

Data source Editors or import wizardsNotes
GRDDL Create Connection File for GRDDL Data Source
RDFa Create Connection File for RDFa Data Source RDFa editor interface is provided for import and edit of RDFa
RSS/Atom Create Connection File for RSS/Atom Feeds RSS 0.91/0.92/1.0/2.0, Atom 0.3/1.0
Email Create Connection File to import Email into RDF imap, pop3, pop3s
RDBMS Create Connection for RDBMS Source (using D2RQ) Oracle, MySQL, jTDS (Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase), PostgreSQL
MS Excel Semantic Tables (Excel Documents) or Import Excel File into Spreadsheet Ontology MS Excel (Office 2003)
Tab-delimited or comma-separated text Semantic Tables (CSV/TSV Documents) or Import Tab-Delimited Spreadsheet File
Text Import RDF added to Web HTML by Calais Text Analysis text mining and analysis
UML Import UML File XMI/UML 2.1 format
XML Semantic XML Documents
XML Schema Import XML Schemas
XHTML Semantic XHTML Documents

 

Supported Inference Engines

TopBraid Composer has configurable support for inference. Supported inference engines are the following.

EngineVersion Notes
TopSPIN built into TBS 3.0 and above
Jena 2 inference built into TopBraid Composer 3.0 and above predefined rule sets of Jena for RDFS and OWL
SwiftOWLIM
SWRL/Jena rules rules engine, executes custom SWRL and Jena rules

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