Adobe LiveCycle ES4 Supported Platforms

* Updated for LiveCycle ES4 Service Pack 1 (SP1)

Adobe® LiveCycle® ES4 server can be set up using any combination of supported operating systems, application servers, databases, database drivers, JDK, LDAP servers, and email servers. This article lists supported software and its version, exceptions, patch definitions, and third-party software patch support policy.

Server operating systems

Production environments

Virtualized environment

Development environments

Java Virtual Machines (JVM)

Application servers

Databases

Database drivers

LDAP servers (optional)

Email servers (optional)

Content managers and corresponding connectors

Software support for PDF Generator

Exceptions to supported server platforms

Consider the following exceptions while choosing a platform to set up your LiveCycle server.

In addition, consider the following points while choosing software for Adobe LiveCycle deployments:

• LiveCycle supports updates, patches, and fix packs on top of the specified major and minor version of supported software. However, update to the next major or minor version is not supported unless specified.
• LiveCycle supports various third-party software as per our Third-party software support Policy.
• LiveCycle supports platforms as per the support provided by third-party vendors. Some combinations may not be allowed by third-party vendors. For example, many vendors have not certified their application servers with IBM® DB2 9.8, and Oracle WebLogic 12c is not supported with Oracle Solaris 10 update 8 and below. As a result, LiveCycle also doesn’t support these combinations. To ensure that you choose the supported software versions, check the support matrix for the third-party vendors as well.
  

LiveCycle system requirements

System requirements for a single-server LiveCycle deployment

System requirements for a clustered LiveCycle deployment
 

LiveCycle client support

Adobe LiveCycle Workbench 11

Adobe LiveCycle Designer 11

• Microsoft® Windows® 8 (ES4 SP1 and later)
  
  • 1 GHz or faster processor with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2.
    
  • 1 GB of RAM for 32-bit or 2 GB of RAM for 64-bit OS
    
  • 16 GB disk space for 32-bit or 20 GB disk space for 64-bit OS
• Microsoft^® Windows^® 7 (ES4 and later)
  
  • Windows 7 Starter, Home Premium, Professional, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Intel Pentium 4 – 1 GHz (2 GHz recommended)
  • 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Windows Server 2008 (ES4 and later)
  
  • Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2 (32-bit and 64-bit OS)
  • 1.3 GHz or faster processor
  • 512MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Windows Vista (ES4 and later)
  
  • Windows Vista^® Home Basic or Premium, Business, Ultimate, or Enterprise with Service Pack 2 (32 bit and 64 bit)
  • Intel Pentium 4 – 1 GHz (2 GHz recommended)
  • 512 MB of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• Graphics memory – 128 MB of GPU (256 MB recommended)
• 2.35 GB of available hard-disk space
• DVD-ROM drive
• Internet Explorer 7 or 8; Firefox 3.5 or 3.6
• 1024 X 768 pixels or greater monitor resolution
• Video hardware acceleration (optional)
• A minimum of Adobe^® Acrobat^® 10 Professional, Acrobat 10 Standard, or Adobe Reader^® 10. To benefit from the new features in Adobe^® LiveCycle^® Designer 11, you must have Acrobat Pro, Acrobat Standard, or Adobe Acrobat Reader.
  

Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader

Browsers

Desktops

Mobile clients

Mobile Workspace

Adobe Flash Player

Flex SDK

• Supports Flex SDK 4.1, 4.5 and, 4.6.
• Correspondence Management Solution supports only Flex SDK 4.5
• Adobe® LiveCycle® Workspace 11 supports only Flex SDK 3.4.1.
   

Adobe AIR

• Adobe AIR 3.1

Adobe LiveCycle Rights Management Extension for Microsoft Office

Click here to see the system requirements for Adobe Rights Management Extension for Microsoft® Office.

Adobe Central Output Server

LiveCycle ES4 supports Adobe® Central Output Server 5.7.1. For more information, see Adobe Central Output Server upgrade FAQ.

Exceptions to client support

Microsoft® Windows® 2012 is not supported for all specified client-side software except Reader and Acrobat.

Also, LiveCycle supports updates, patches, and fix packs on top of the specified major and minor version of supported software. However, update to the next major or minor version is not supported unless specified.

LiveCycle third-party patch support policy

The third-party software requirements for all versions of Adobe LiveCycle are documented in the “System Requirements” section of their respective product documents. All documentation for currently supported LiveCycle versions can be accessed from http://helpx.adobe.com/livecycle.html. For versions 8.x and later, review the Preparing to Install LiveCycle document for your LiveCycle version.

Adobe LiveCycle’s third-party reference platforms state the specific patch level of third-party infrastructure that was current during the development and release of each version of LiveCycle, and from the minimum patch/service pack level of the infrastructure supported by that version of LiveCycle. 

Adobe supports urgent or recommended patches issued by third-party vendors upon their release assuming that third-party vendors guarantee backward compatibility with the versions that Adobe LiveCycle supports. Adobe will only support patches released after the minimum patch level stated in the LiveCycle documentation.

In some cases, Adobe does not support third-party updates that change major functionality, and thus do not support full backward compatibility. For details on the supported updates, see Supported patch definitions for specific vendor products and the patch types Adobe supports.

Under circumstances beyond Adobe’s control, third-party patches that claim backward compatibility may have negative impact on the Adobe products or customer environments. In such cases, Adobe recommends that customers assess the impact of any urgent patch from a third party before applying them to critical systems. Adobe will work with third parties using reasonable business efforts to resolve such issues, either through normal Adobe support programs or by third parties rectifying the issue in their patch. This does not guarantee that a newly released third-party patch that will be supported by Adobe will work as documented by the vendor or with LiveCycle.

Adobe reserves the right to change the third-party reference platforms supported by a LiveCycle release and their supported patch definitions at any given point.

Additional information for third-party patches can also be found by searching the Adobe Enterprise Support site for knowledgebase articles related to your product.

Change History

Last updated: September 09, 2015

• Added LiveCycle ES4 supports Acrobat
• Changed minimum supported version to Acrobat 10