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Let's talk about a stack of tools, all open source and freely available, that you'll need to setup. Likely you have some of these, or some version of these, already on your development machine.

JDK 1.5 or Newer

Tapestry 5 makes use of features of requires Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.5 . This includes Java annotations, and a little bit of Java generics. or newer, except that starting with Tapestry 5.4 you must use JDK 1.6 and JDK 1.7 work fine too, as does or newer. JDK 1.8 if you're using 8 works only for Tapestry 5.3.8 or newer (but see the release notes).

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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