shuuhen

That would only be for programs designed to use special services. On a Unix-like operating system, I'd generally expect a program to state what it requires in either an INSTALL or README file (yes, often all capitals). You may be thinking of libraries, but if the program compiles correctly you should have all the libraries in place.

Software involving service-oriented architecture (SOA) servers to be in place should say in their manual or README. I haven't really done programming involving these, but some examples are Delicious Monster (Mac program) and Amarok. Delicious Monster is a program to catalog DVDs, books and music. It uses Amazon's services to pull data for a particular product. Amarok is a music player, similar to iTunes. It uses various services to pull album artwork. Neither require me to set up application servers or anything special. You may find a program that does require an extra application server to be running, but it should say in the manual or README. Before expecting a program to require setting up an extra server, I'd expect something more along the lines of needing to configure the program that uses the services to point to a server already running.