Platform (Base Version)
* Updated for LiveCycle ES4 Service Pack 1 (SP1)
LiveCycle server support
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.
For a complete list of exceptions to supported server platforms, see Exceptions to supported server platforms.
Adobe® LiveCycle® ES4 server supports only English, French, German, and Japanese versions of the supported operating systems and applications.
Server operating systems
Production environments
On production environments, only 64-bit operating systems are supported.
|
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Microsoft® Windows® Server® 2008 R2 (Standard and Enterprise editions) |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® Server® 2008 R1 (Standard and Enterprise editions) |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
IBM® AIX® 7.1 |
Technology levels, service packs, and program temporary fixes (PTFs) |
ES4 and later |
IBM® AIX® 6.1 |
Technology levels, service packs, and PTFs |
ES4 and later |
Oracle Solaris™ 11 |
Updates and patches |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Oracle Solaris™ 10 update 4 |
Updates until update 9 and patches (for ES4) Updates and patches (for ES4 SP1 and later) |
ES4 and later |
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server & AP 6.0 |
Minor releases, cumulative updates, and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server & AP 5.5 |
Minor releases¸ cumulative updates, and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
SUSE® Linux® Enterprise Server 11 |
Service packs, cumulative patches, and critical security updates |
ES4 and later |
Virtualized environment
Vendor/Technology (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
VMWare ESX 3.0, 4.0 and VMWare ESXi 5.0 |
Minor versions, updates, and patches |
ES4 and later |
Development environments
Only 64-bit operating systems are supported in development environments.
Platform (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Microsoft® Windows® 7 |
Service pack and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® Vista |
Service pack and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Java Virtual Machines (JVM)
LiveCycle supports only 64-bit JVMs on production environments.
Product (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Oracle Java™ 7 update 25 |
Updates |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Oracle Java™ 6 update 31 |
Updates |
ES4 and later |
IBM® WebSphere® Java™ SDK 1.7 (As supported by WebSphere® version) |
JDK SRs |
ES4 SP1 and later |
IBM® WebSphere® Java™ SDK 1.6 (As supported by WebSphere® version) |
JDK SRs |
ES4 and later |
Oracle JRockit Java™ 6 (R28.x) (As supported by WebLogic version) |
Updates |
ES4 and later |
Application servers
IBM® WebSphere® clusters are only supported in Network Deployment editions.
Product (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.2.0 with patch JBPAPP-10730 applied (No support for Community editions) |
Patches and cumulative patches. Moving from one micro version to another is not supported (for example, EAP 5.2.1 is not supported). |
ES4 SP1 and later |
JBoss® Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 5.1.0 (No support for Community editions) |
Patches and cumulative patches. Moving from one micro version to another is not supported (for example, EAP 5.1.1 is not supported). |
ES4 and later |
Oracle WebLogic Server 12.1.1 (12c) |
12.1.1 only |
ES4 and later |
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.3 – 10.3.5 (11g) |
Patches (Support for upgrade customers only) |
ES4 and later |
Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.6 (11g) |
Patches |
ES4 and later |
IBM® WebSphere® 8.5.5.x where x = 0 |
Fix packs Note: x denotes the fix pack number. Therefore, the supported versions are 8.5.5.0, 8.5.5.1, 8.5.5.2, and so on. |
ES4 SP1 and later |
IBM® WebSphere® 8.5.0.x |
Fix packs |
ES4 SP1 and later |
IBM® WebSphere® 8.0.0.x (Base and Network Deployment editions) |
Fix packs |
ES4 and later |
IBM® WebSphere® 7.0.0.x (Base and Network Deployment editions) |
Fix packs |
ES4 and later |
Databases
Product (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
---|---|---|
MySQL 5.1.30 |
Updates that do not change the major.minor version |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 (Standard and Enterprise editions) |
Updates and service packs | ES4 SP1 and later |
Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 (Standard and Enterprise editions) |
Updates and service packs |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 (Standard and Enterprise editions) |
Updates and service packs |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® SQL Server 2005 SP3 (Standard and Enterprise editions) |
Updates and service packs (Support for upgrade customers only) |
ES4 and later |
Oracle 12c (Standard, Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Enterprise editions) |
Updates and service packs | ES4 and later |
Oracle 11g R2 (Standard, Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Enterprise editions) |
Patch sets |
ES4 and later |
Oracle 11g R1 (Standard, Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Enterprise editions) |
Patch sets |
ES4 and later |
Oracle 10g R2 (Standard, Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Enterprise editions) |
Patch sets (Support for upgrade customers only) |
ES4 only |
IBM® DB2® 9.1 (WorkGroup and Enterprise editions) |
All minor versions (9.2, 9.3, and so on), fix packs (fix pack 1, 2, 3, and so on), and APARs (fixes) |
ES4 and later |
Database drivers
Product (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Connector/J 5.1.14 GA for RedHat MySQL |
Supplied with LiveCycle installation |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® SQL Server JDBC driver 3.0 (sqljdbc4.jar) if using Java 6 |
Supplied with LiveCycle installation. |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® SQL Server JDBC driver 4.0 (sqljdbc4.jar) if using Java 7 |
Supplied with LiveCycle installation. |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 JDBC driver (ojdbc6.jar) |
Supplied with LiveCycle installation |
ES4 and later |
IBM® DB2 Universal JDBC driver 3.50.152 (db2jcc.jar) |
Supplied with LiveCycle installation |
ES4 and later |
LDAP servers (optional)
Product (Base Version) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
---|---|
Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 7.0 |
Service packs |
Oracle (or SunOne) Directory Server Enterprise Edition 6.3 |
Service packs |
Oracle (or SunOne) Directory Server Enterprise Edition 5.2 |
Service packs |
Microsoft® Active Directory 2012 |
As part of the OS update |
Microsoft® Active Directory 2008 R2 |
As part of the OS update |
Microsoft® Active Directory 2008 |
As part of the OS update |
Microsoft® Active Directory 2003 |
As part of the OS update |
Microsoft® Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2012 |
As part of the OS update |
Microsoft® Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2008 R2 |
As part of the OS update |
Microsoft® Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services 2008 |
As part of the OS update |
IBM® Tivoli Directory Server 6.3 |
Feature packs and interim fixes |
IBM® Tivoli Directory Server 6 |
Feature packs and interim fixes |
Novell eDirectory 8.8.7 |
Product updates |
Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 |
Product updates |
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5.0 |
Maintenance release and fix packs |
IBM Lotus Domino 8.0.0 |
Maintenance release and fix packs |
ADAM 1.1.3790.2075 |
- |
OpenLDAP 2.3.43-12.el5_5.3.i386 |
- |
Email servers (optional)
Product |
Applies to |
IBM Lotus Domino 9.0 |
ES4 SP1 and later |
IBM Lotus Domino 8.5 |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Microsoft® Exchange 2010 |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Exchange 2007 |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Exchange 2003 |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Exchange 2000 |
ES4 and later |
Send Mail (Included with RedHat) |
ES4 and later |
Novel GroupWise 7 |
ES4 and later |
Novel GroupWise 6 |
ES4 and later |
Content managers and corresponding connectors
Product |
Version |
IBM Content Manager Server |
8.4 Fix pack 1 and 8.5 Fix pack 2 |
IBM Content Manager Client |
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EMC Documentum |
6.7 and 7.0 |
IBM Filenet |
5.0 and 5.2 |
Microsoft Sharepoint |
2007, 2010, and 2013 |
Software support for PDF Generator
Adobe® LiveCycle® PDF Generator 11 supports only English, French, German, and Japanese versions of the supported operating systems and applications.
In addition:
- PDF Generator is not supported on Windows 2008 R1. PDF Generator on Windows requires Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and later.
- LiveCycle supports only 32-bit editions of supported software.
- The OCR PDF (Searchable PDF), Optimize PDF, and Export PDF features are supported only on Microsoft® Windows®.
- The HTML2PDF service is supported on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server & AP 6 from LiveCycle ES4 SP1 onwards.
Product |
Supported Formats for Conversion to PDF |
---|---|
Adobe® Acrobat® XI Pro | XPS, image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPF, JPX, JP2, J2K, J2C, JPC), HTML, HTM, DWG, DXF, and DWF |
Microsoft® Office 2010 |
DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, RTF, and TXT |
Microsoft® Office 2007 |
DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, RTF, and TXT |
Microsoft® Office Visio 2010 |
VSD |
Microsoft® Office Visio 2007 |
VSD |
Microsoft® Publisher 2010 |
PUB |
Microsoft® Publisher 2007 |
PUB |
Microsoft® Project 2010 |
MPP |
Microsoft® Project 2007 |
MPP |
Adobe® PageMaker 7 |
PMD, PM6, P65, and PM |
Adobe® FrameMaker 8.0 |
FM |
Corel WordPerfect X4 |
WPD |
OpenOffice 3.4 |
ODT, ODP, ODS, ODG, ODF, SXW, SXI, SXC, SXD, XLS, XLSX, DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPF, JPX, JP2, J2K, J2C, JPC), HTML, HTM, RTF, and TXT |
OpenOffice 3.3 |
ODT, ODP, ODS, ODG, ODF, SXW, SXI, SXC, SXD, DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, image formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG, JPG, TIF, TIFF, PNG, JPF, JPX, JP2, J2K, J2C, JPC), HTML, and HTM |
Exceptions to supported server platforms
Consider the following exceptions while choosing a platform to set up your LiveCycle server.
Exception | Applies to |
---|---|
LiveCycle doesn’t support Oracle WebLogic and JBoss® on IBM® AIX®. |
ES4 and later |
LiveCycle doesn’t support Oracle WebLogic on SUSE® Linux® Enterprise. |
ES4 only |
Oracle WebLogic 12c is supported only on Microsoft® Windows® 2008 R2. |
ES4 only |
LiveCycle doesn’t support Oracle WebLogic and IBM® WebSphere® with MySQL. |
ES4 and later |
LiveCycle doesn’t support IBM® WebSphere® 7 on Red Hat® 6 and IBM® AIX® 7.1. |
ES4 only |
LiveCycle doesn’t support Oracle Solaris™ with Intel® architecture (only SPARC® is supported). |
ES4 and later |
For JDK 6 variants, LiveCycle doesn’t support any other JDK with Oracle WebLogic on Oracle Solaris™ other than Oracle Java™ SE. |
ES4 and later |
For JDK 6 variants, LiveCycle doesn’t support any other JDK with Oracle WebLogic on non-Solaris™ platforms other than Oracle JRockit JDK. |
ES4 and later |
For JDK 7 variants, LiveCycle doesn't support any other JDK other than Oracle Java™ SE with Oracle WebLogic irrespective of the OS variant |
ES4 SP1 and later |
LiveCycle doesn’t support any JDK with JBoss® other than Oracle Java™ SE. |
ES4 and later |
LiveCycle doesn’t support any JDK with IBM® WebSphere® other than IBM® JDK. |
ES4 and later |
PDF Generator is not supported on Windows 2008 R1. PDF Generator on Windows requires Windows 2008 R2 SP1 and later. |
ES4 and later |
Red Hat® 6 is not supported for using HTML2PDF service of PDF Generator. |
ES4 only |
Microsoft® SQL server is supported only when your application server is on the Microsoft® Windows® operating system. |
ES4 only |
LiveCycle doesn’t support IBM® DB2 with JBoss®. |
ES4 and later |
AEM Forms on JEE doesn’t support IBM Content Manager connector client version 8.4.3 on Oracle Solaris 11. | ES4 and later |
AEM Forms on JEE doesn’t support IBM FileNet 5.2's process engine. | ES4 and later |
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
LiveCycle client support
Adobe LiveCycle Workbench 11
All operating systems are supported on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, except Microsoft® Windows® XP, which is supported only on 32-bit architecture.
Platform |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Microsoft® Windows® 8 (Enterprise, Pro, Basic) |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® 7 (Enterprise, Pro, Home - Basic/Premium) |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® 2008 Server R2, R1 |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® Vista (Ultimate, Business, Home -Basic/Premium) |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® Vista Home (Business, Basic/Premium) |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional SP3 |
Service packs and critical updates |
ES4 and later |
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
- 1 GHz or faster processor with support for PAE, NX, and SSE2.
- 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
Acrobat and Adobe Reader (Base) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Acrobat (Continuous track) |
Version 15.008.20082 and later |
ES4 and later |
Acrobat (Classic track) |
Version 15.006.30066 and later |
ES4 and later |
11.0 |
All updates and patches |
ES4 and later |
10.0 |
All updates and patches |
ES4 and later |
The Acrobat product family introduces two tracks for both Acrobat and Reader which are essentially different products: “Classic” and “Continuous.” For details and a comparison of the two tracks, see http://www.adobe.com/go/acrobatdctracks.
Browsers
Desktops
Browser (Base) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Windows® Internet Explorer 7 |
Service packs and updates |
ES4 and later |
Windows® Internet Explorer 8 |
Service packs and updates |
ES4 and later |
Windows® Internet Explorer 9 |
Service packs and updates |
ES4 and later |
Windows® Internet Explorer 10 |
Service packs and updates |
ES4 SP1 and later |
FireFox 13 |
All updates |
ES4 and later |
Chrome 19 |
All updates |
ES4 and later |
Safari 5.1.7 |
Minor revisions |
ES4 and later |
Safari 6.0 |
Minor revisions |
ES4 and later |
Some browser-related exceptions for desktops are as follows:
- Mobile Forms and HTML Workspace require HTML5 support. Therefore, versions prior to Windows® Internet Explorer 9 are not supported.
- Safari is supported only on Macintosh OS.
- LiveCycle UIs support only the desktop mode in Internet Explorer 10. App mode is not supported.
- FireFox and Chrome are supported only on Microsoft® Windows® platforms (all variants of Windows® XP, Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® 2008 R1, and Windows® 2008 R2), and Safari on Macintosh OS only. They are not supported on Windows® 8.
- Adobe® LiveCycle® Workspace 11 does not support Safari 5.1 on Macintosh OS X 10.6 and 10.7 with Acrobat 10.1.3 and earlier versions. For more information about Safari 5.1 compatibility with Adobe Reader, Acrobat, see http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/multi/safari-5-1-incompatible-reader.html.
- Forms portal supports JAWS 14.0 screen reader software on Internet Explorer 10 for accessibility.
- LiveCycle Administration Console is not supported on Safari.
Mobile clients
Browser (Base) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Chrome on Android™ 4.0 and later |
All updates |
ES4 and later |
Safari (iOS 5.1.1) |
All updates |
ES4 and later |
Safari (iOS 6.0) |
All updates |
ES4 and later |
Some browser-related exceptions for mobile clients are as follows:
- Mobile clients are supported only for Mobile Forms and Forms Portal.
- Mobile Forms is not supported on the default browser on Android devices.
- Forms Portal is supported on Safari on iPad only.
Mobile Workspace
OS (Base) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Apple iOS 5.1.1 |
All iOS updates |
ES4 and later |
Apple iOS 6 |
All iOS updates |
ES4 and later |
Apple iOS 7 |
All iOS updates |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Android Jelly Bean 4.1.2 and later |
Minor updates to Jelly Bean |
ES4 SP1 and later |
Adobe Flash Player
Flash Player (Base) |
Supported Patch Definitions |
Applies to |
Flash Player 11.1 |
Minor versions and updates |
ES4 and later |
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