Hardware requirements
The minimum hardware requirement for LuciadFusion is any system that is capable of meeting the software requirements listed in this article.
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You do not need a high-end graphics card to run any of the LuciadFusion components mentioned on this page. None of them require the hardware acceleration provided by such a GPU. |
Recommended hardware requirements for the LuciadFusion Platform, including Studio
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SSD or HDD: at least 7.2k RPM SATA 3.0 (6 Gbps). Optionally, for heavy usage due to a large number of clients, 10k or 15k SAS-3 (12 Gbps) or SATA 3.2 (16 Gbps).
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CPU: 8-core
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The usage of additional cores will result in better performance for importing data sources. |
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RAM: 16GB
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Gigabit Ethernet
Supported platforms
You can develop and deploy LuciadFusion applications on the following platforms:
| Platform | Version | Operating System Architecture |
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Windows |
8.1 and above |
64-bit |
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Windows Server |
2012 and above |
64-bit |
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Linux |
Various distributions |
x86-64 |
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macOS |
10.9 and above |
64-bit |
Supported browsers for LuciadFusion Studio
To use the LuciadFusion Studio frontend application on a client machine, you need to run it in one of the supported browsers:
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Chrome (latest version)
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Firefox (latest version)
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Edge (latest version)
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Safari (latest version)
Supported databases
LuciadFusion can use several types of databases to hold configuration and data catalog information. The following databases are supported:
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PostgreSQL versions 9.4, 9.5, 9.6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, with the PostGIS and pgcrypto extensions
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Oracle versions 11g, 12c, 18c and 19c
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SQL Server versions 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2022
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H2 version 1.4 (not suitable for production environments)
Java
As a Java API, LuciadLightspeed requires a JDK for development and a JRE for deployment.
Table 1, “Supported Java versions” gives an overview of the supported Java versions.
Luciad aims to support the latest Java LTS version in its latest releases. The minimum JDK/JRE requirements never change with a minor upgrade (an upgrade from 2022.0 to 2022.1, for instance) or a patch release of LuciadLightspeed.
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LuciadLightspeed 2017 and earlier |
8 |
not supported |
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LuciadLightspeed 2018 [1] |
8, 11 |
11 |
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LuciadLightspeed 2019 |
8, 11 |
11 |
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LuciadLightspeed 2020 |
8, 11 |
11 |
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LuciadLightspeed 2021 [2] |
8, 11, 17 |
11, 17 |
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LuciadLightspeed 2022 |
8, 11, 17 |
11, 17 |
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LuciadLightspeed 2023 |
8, 11, 17 |
11, 17 |
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LuciadLightspeed 2024 [3] |
17, 21 |
17, 21 |
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For users of Mac computers with Apple silicon
Even though you’re using an ARM-based processor, download and install a JDK for an x86 64-bit architecture instead of an ARM-based JDK. |
Recommended JDK versions and providers
We recommend using the latest version of any long-term support (LTS) release. At the time of writing, the LTS releases are Java 8, Java 11, and Java 17.
We haven’t encountered any provider-specific issues. LuciadLightspeed is regularly tested using OracleJDK, Adoptium Temurin, Liberica, and several other Java providers.
OpenJDK 8 considerations
LuciadLightspeed doesn’t officially support OpenJDK 8. The minimum supported version is OpenJDK 11 at the time of writing. We don’t test LuciadLightspeed on OpenJDK 8, but in practice, recent LuciadLightspeed versions seem to work fine on it.
JDK 11 and JDK 17 considerations
LuciadLightspeed supports JDK 11 and JDK 17 in compatibility mode.
If you want to get rid of illegal access warnings or errors, use the --add-opens <module_name>/<package_name>=<reflectingmodule> flags. If you set the reflectingmodule value to ALL-UNNAMED, you allow all classes from the classpath to access the package.
In practice, any illegal access violation will come from these third-party libraries:
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JIDE, used by Lucy’s tabbed interface front-end. This does not affect Lucy Map Centric.
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JAI, used to:
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Save models to GeoTIFF
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Enable non-hardware-accelerated imaging operations
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Deployment
To deploy the LuciadFusion Platform, a Java servlet container / application server with support for Java Servlet 3.1 or higher is necessary: Apache Tomcat, Oracle WebLogic, Glassfish, IBM WebSphere, JBoss, Jetty, and so on. For your convenience, the product is shipped with the Jetty 9.4.3 servlet container, so that the server can be used out-of-the-box.