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As much as we would like to dive right into the code, we must first set up your development environment. Likely you have some of these, or reasonable alternatives, already on your development machine.

JDK 1.

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8 or Newer

This tutorial uses the latest released version of Tapestry, which requires Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.7 8 or newer. (But see Supported Environments and Versions if you want to use an older version of JDK or Tapestry.)

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Maven is not essential for using Tapestry, but is especially helpful when performing the initial set-up of a Tapestry application. Feel free to substitute Gradle or Ivy if you prefer.

Eclipse comes with a Maven plugin, M2Eclipse (also known as m2e) with an embedded version of Maven. We'll use that here for simplicity's sake. Alternatively, you could install Maven from http://maven.apache.org/download.html and use it from the command line ("mvn").

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Tapestry is available as a set of JAR files, but you will not have to download them yourself. As with Jetty, Maven will take care of downloading Tapestry and its dependencies.

Next: Dependencies, Tools and Plugins Creating The Skeleton Application

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