Installing Oxygen XML Developer on Windows Server
Choosing an Installer
You can install Oxygen XML Developer on Windows using one of the following methods:
System Requirements
- Operating systems
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Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2
- CPU
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- Minimum - Intel Pentium III™/AMD Athlon™ class processor, 1 GHz
- Recommended - Dual Core class processor
- Memory
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- Minimum values per user - 512 MB of RAM
- Recommended values per user - 2 GB of RAM
- Storage
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- Minimum - 400 MB free disk space
- Recommended - 1 GB free disk space
- Java
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Oxygen XML Developer requires Java. If you use the native Windows installer, Oxygen XML Developer will be installed with its own copy of Java. If you use the all platforms installer, your system must have a compatible Java virtual machine installed.
Oxygen XML Developer only supports official and stable Java Virtual Machines with the version number 1.6.0 or later (the recommended version is 1.7) from Oracle available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html. Oxygen XML Developer may work with JVM implementations from other vendors, but there is no guarantee that those implementations will work with future Oxygen XML Developer updates and releases.
Oxygen XML Developer uses the following rules to determine which installed version of Java to use:
- If you install using the native Windows installer, which installs a version of
Java as part of the Oxygen XML Developer installation, the version in the
jre
subdirectory of the installation directory is used. - Otherwise, if the Windows environment variable
JAVA_HOME
is set, Oxygen XML Developer uses the Java version pointed to by this variable. - Otherwise, the version of Java pointed to by your PATH environment variable is used.
If you run Oxygen XML Developer using the batch file,
oxygenDeveloper.bat
, you can edit the batch file to specify a particular version to use. - If you install using the native Windows installer, which installs a version of
Java as part of the Oxygen XML Developer installation, the version in the
Install Using the Windows Installer
To install Oxygen XML Developer using the Windows installer, follow these steps:
- Make sure that your system meets the system requirements.
- Download the Windows installer.
- Validate the integrity of the downloaded file by checking it against the MD5 sum published on the download page.
- Run the installer and follow the instructions in the installation program.
- Start Oxygen XML Developer using one of the following methods:
- Using one of the shortcuts created by the installer.
- By running
oxygenDeveloper.bat
, which is located in the install folder.
- To license your copy of Oxygen XML Developer go to and enter your license information.
Configuring Windows Terminal Server
- Install Oxygen XML Developer on the server and make its shortcuts available to all users.
- If you need to run multiple instances of Oxygen XML Developer, make sure you add the
-Dcom.oxygenxml.MultipleInstances=true parameter in the
.bat
startup script. - Make sure you allocate sufficient memory to Oxygen XML Developer by adding the
-Xmx
parameter either in the.bat
startup script, or in the.vmoptions
configuration file (if you start it from an executable launcher).