SOLA Release Candidate

The SOLA Release Candidate (v1.1) updates the SOLA Customization Release (v1.0) with over 180 bug fixes and enhancements, many of which have been identified during pilot customization efforts. The Release Candidate includes all the functionality requried to support generic cadastre and registration operations in a typical land office including

  • Subdividing and merging parcels
  • Cadastre correction/redefinition
  • Orthophoto support
  • Recording of property rights, restrictions and ownership details
  • Printing of certificates (registration, ownership, title)
  • Case management functions including requisition, rejection, withdrawal and approval / registration of proposed changes
  • Document management
  • Validation of proposed changes using configurable, automated business rules
  • Application process reporting
  • History of actions for an application and its services  
  • User administration (via SOLA Admin)
  • Configurable role based access control (via SOLA Admin)

The SOLA Development Team would like to invite members of the SOLA Community, in particular developers working in the land administration area and potential users of SOLA to reivew and comment on the SOLA Release Candidate. Your comments can be sent via email to  and the team will endeavour to respond to your feedback.

The Release Candidate is available in three forms:

  1. The Release Candidate Web Start Applications, demonstrating the functions of the SOLA Desktop and SOLA Admin. These applications are deployed using Java Web Start technology. Users must have internet access and a local installation of the Java SE Runtime Environment 7 to run the web start applications.

  2. The SOLA Developer Setup Bundle that includes instructions on how to install and configure the development tools used for SOLA, along with the source code, database backup and supporting configuration files. The SOLA Developer Setup Bundle also includes instructions on how to upgrade earlier releases of the SOLA Developers Bundle to use the Release Candidate.

  3. As source code from Github SOLA-FAO repositories. To use this source code you will need to sign up for a Github account and install Git. The Github help provides informative tutorials on how to achieve these tasks. Note that SOLA uses 10 Git repositories. For details on how to manage these repositories, see the README.txt in the code repository. These repositories are under constant development by the SOLA Development Team. To obtain the source code for the Release Candidate, checkout the candidate-release tag or the release branch. 

Documentation supporting the Release Candidate including the SOLA User Guide is available here. The license for the Release Candidate is available here.