To install the SpringSource Application Platform on Unix, unzip both of the distribution packages to the desired installation directory. For example, to install into /opt:

unzip springsource-ap-1.0.0.beta1.zip -d /opt
unzip springsource-ap-epl-1.0.0.beta1.zip -d /opt
				

This creates a directory called springsource-ap-1.0.0.beta1 under /opt.

SpringSource Application Platform requires write access to the installation directory, in this case /opt/springsource-ap-1.0.0.beta1. Typically this means it must be run as the user that installed it, or the installation directory's ownership must be changed.

To install the SpringSource Application Platform on Windows, unzip both of the distribution packages to the desired installation directory. You should use a zip application such as 7zip, not the built-in folder decompression.