ACLI is primarily a Java application. Historically, ACLI had a single distribution that contained the ACLI jar that required users to separately install a Java JRE to use. Much has changed over the years including the addition of the ACLI Shell - a high performance, platform specific, terminal app. Now we provide a variety of distributions to match various needs.

1. Platform independent (generic) distribution - this contains the ACLI jar, multiple ACLI shell apps for all OS platforms we support, and start scripts for Windows and Linux/MacOS

2. Platform specific distributions - these contain a platform optimized ACLI app (using GraalVM™), the platform specific shell terminal app, and platform specific start script. Note: these do not need a Java installation. This description applies to distributions on or after 10.3.0.

3. Platform specific installers - installer app guides user through installing the platform specific ACLI distribution and helps do some initial ACLI configuration and installation verification steps. This is the recommended way for users to install ACLI.

4. Docker images - Based on current LTS versions of Ubuntu and include a few additional tools especially helpful for pipelines and DevOps scenarios: git nano unzip.

   1. acli - ACLI optimized distribution for Linux/amd64

   2. acli-jre - ACLI optimized distribution (Linux/amd64) including a Java 17 JRE from Eclipse Temurin

   3. acli-generic - ACLI platform independent (generic) distribution including a Java 17 JRE from Eclipse Temurin

Supported Platforms

The platform independent distribution will run the ACLI jar on any platform that has a Java 11 JRE. However, Appfire only officially supports ACLI running in standard environments. The ACLI Shell app is platform specific and is only available to run on the standard environments.

1. Windows on amd64 (Intel and AMD processors)

2. Linux on amd64 (Intel and AMD processors)

3. MacOS on amd64 (Intel)

4. MacOS on arm64 (Apple Silicon/M1/M2)