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Tapestry 5 makes use of features of JDK 1.5. This includes Java Annotations, and a little bit of Java Generics.

Eclipse

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Helios

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

Note

Ok, sure, IntelliJ is now free as well. And NetBeans has gotten really nice. Feel free to adapt these instructions to those IDEs.

Eclipse 3.3 comes in various flavors, and includes a reasonable XML editor built-in.

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

Tapestry 5.2.

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You should not have to download this directly; as we'll see, Maven should take care of downloading Tapestry, and its dependencies, as needed.Caution: this book is being written in parallel with Tapestry 5. In some cases, the screenshots may not be entirely accurate and the version number for Tapestry is in flux, with snapshot releases occurring frequently, and new dot releases every few weeks. So, for example, is 5.2.4 is not available, you can use 5.2.3 instead.

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