Setup a Java development environment for the Entando Platform

Note to Linux users: though this document shows where to download and how to install the required software, packages from your distribution might still suit your needs. Just be sure to check the versions.

Hardware for a development environment

The following hardware configuration is suitable for a wide range of projects:

• 4 GB of RAM
• Dual core CPU ~ 2.2 Ghz
• ~ 1Gb of free space on disk (the vast majority of the disk space is for Maven dependencies!)

Baseline software

With this minimal setup, if you already know how Maven works, you'll be able to instantiate a new Entando application and run it using Jetty.

• JDK 1.6+
• Maven
• Ant 1.8+
• ant-contrib
• PostgreSQL 8.4+ or MySQL Community Server 5+.

Developing with Entando

• Tomcat 6+
• PostgreSQL JDBC driver or MySQL JDBC driver
• A Java IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans, and so on...)