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Tapestry 5 makes use of features of Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.5. This includes Java annotations, and a little bit of Java generics. JDK 1.6 and JDK 1.7 work fine too, and JDK 1.8 works only if you're using Tapestry 5.3.8 or newer.

Eclipse IDE

For this tutorial we'll assume you're using Eclipse as your Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Eclipse is a popular IDE, but feel free to adapt these instructions to IntelliJ, NetBeans, or any other.

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