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Tapestry 5 makes use of features of JDK 1.5. This includes Java Annotationsannotations, and a little bit of Java Genericsgenerics. JDK 1.6 works fine too.

Eclipse

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Indigo (3.

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7 or Newer)

Since we're emphasizing a free and open source stack, we'll concentrate on the best free IDE.

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This tutorial was written with RunJettyRun version 1.13.1.

Maven

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3

Maven is a software build tool of rather epic ambitions. It has a very sophisticated plugin system that allows it to do virtually anything, though compiling Java code, building WAR and JAR files, and creating reports and web sites are its forte.

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Maven is not essential for using Tapestry, but is especially helpful when performing the initial setup of a Tapestry application.

Maven 2.2.1 is available from http://maven.apache.org/download.html.

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There are plugins available for Eclipse, but we will not be using those here; instead, we'll use Maven to generate Eclipse control files for us.

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