JDK/JRE 1.5+. We strongly recommend that you use Sun JDK 1.5 (Java 5) and above to run your Bamboo installation. You are likely to experience incompatibility problems running Bamboo under a different JDK. Don't forget to point your JAVA_HOME system environment variable to your Sun JDK before installing Bamboo, as Bamboo will automatically configure JDK capabilities based on the system environment variables on your machine.
A database. NOTE: Bamboo ships with a built-in HSQL database, which is fine for evaulation purposes. For production environments it is recommended that you use an enterprise database, as described in Connecting Bamboo to an external database.
Only if you are using the Bamboo EAR-WAR distribution:A servlet container that supports Servlet 2.4 specification. Most modern containers should comply to this.
While some of our customers run Bamboo on SPARC-based hardware, Atlassian only officially supports Bamboo running on x86 hardware and 64-bit derivatives of x86 hardware.
Choose your Bamboo 'Distribution':
Bamboo is available in two 'distributions':
Standalone distribution
Pre-packaged with the Jetty application server
Requires virtually no setup
Recommended for all users
EAR-WAR distribution
Deploys into an existing application server
Requires manual configuration
Suitable only for system administrators
The Standalone distribution is recommended even for organisations with an existing application server environment.
Hi Bob,
Does the warning about using SUN JDK apply to remote agents?
Yes, it ap...
Hi Bob,
Does the warning about using SUN JDK apply to remote agents?
Yes, it applies to the remote agents as well.
Is there a list of problems somewhere
To be quite honest, we haven't fully tested Bamboo on Non-Sun JDK and are not sure of the potential problems - but there are a few JIRA issue floating around (See BAM-2464)
or an issue to remove this restriction?
Unfortunately, this is currently not on the Bamboo road map for the next year or so.
Don't forget to point your JAVA_HOME system environment variable to your Sun JDK before installing Bamboo, as Bamboo will automatically 
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Comments (2)
Jul 20, 2008
Bob Swift says:
Does the warning about using SUN JDK apply to remote agents? Is there a list of...Does the warning about using SUN JDK apply to remote agents? Is there a list of problems somewhere or an issue to remove this restriction?
Jul 22, 2008
Ajay Sridhar says:
Hi Bob, Does the warning about using SUN JDK apply to remote agents? Yes, it ap...Hi Bob,
Yes, it applies to the remote agents as well.
To be quite honest, we haven't fully tested Bamboo on Non-Sun JDK and are not sure of the potential problems - but there are a few JIRA issue floating around (See BAM-2464)
Unfortunately, this is currently not on the Bamboo road map for the next year or so.
Cheers,
Ajay.
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