Introduction
This is where our journey begins. In this chapter, we'll learn how to set up our environment for developing applications on JBoss AS correctly. Installation of the components is not particularly tricky, but it needs a few steps to be performed and quite a lot of Kbytes to be downloaded.
This is our checklist:
- Install the appropriate Java Development Kit (JDK) for running JBoss AS
- Install JBoss AS 5.0
- Install the Eclipse development environment
- Install the JBoss Tools plugins needed for developing applications
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