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.

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Tapestry requires Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.5 or newer, except that starting with Tapestry 5.4 you must use JDK 1.6 or newer. JDK 1.8 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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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: Creating The Skeleton Application Dependencies, Tools and Plugins

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