The following required software components to run Mifos are all open source and freely available for download.

• Java: Mifos is written and developed with the Java 6 SE programming language to successfully run Mifos on your machine requires the Java environment installed.
  • Current Version: JDK 6 Update 24 
  • Note: Only the JRE is needed to run an instance of Mifos for testing, staging, or production.  If you will be developing on Mifos, you must install the JDK)
    • Previous updates before 24 should work fine with Mifos.
• MySQL Community Edition: To successfully manage and process all of the data within Mifos requires a RDBMS on the back-end.  MySQL must be properly downloaded and configured prior to running Mifos.
  • Current Version: mySQL Community Edition 5.1 (both the 32 bit and 64 bit versions of MySQL will work)
• Jetty: Mifos is a web-based application and requires Jetty to be run as your Java Servlet container either locally or on your web server.
  • Current Version: Jetty 7.3 (direct link)
  • As of all releases post-Mifos 2.2, Jetty has replaced TomCat as the web server to run Mifos in. 

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