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System Requirements</h1> <div id="minitoc-area"> <ul class="minitoc"> <li> <a href="#System Requirements">System Requirements</a> </li> </ul> </div> <a name="N10013"></a><a name="System Requirements"></a> <h2 class="boxed">System Requirements</h2> <div class="section"> <p> The latest Lucene <a href="releases.html">release</a> has the following minimum requirements: <ul> <li>Java 1.4.x or greater.</li> <li>ANT 1.6.5 or greater.</li> <li>JUnit 3.8.1 if you wish to run the unit tests.</li> <li>CPU, Disk and Memory requirements are based on the many choices made in implementing Lucene (document size, number of documents, and number of hits retrieved to name a few.) 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