Installation environments overview

PolicyCenter has a typical J2EE three-tier architecture: client, application server, and database server. For the application to function, install and configure each tier correctly. Before you get started, ensure that you have the appropriate software versions to support PolicyCenter. Guidewire recommends strongly that you obtain support contracts with vendors for all tiers of your application infrastructure.

Although production environments can run on operating systems other than Microsoft Windows, all development environments must run on the Windows operating system. However, you can build PolicyCenter on a non-development Unix system prior to deploying the PolicyCenter application.