What s Covered in This Chapter

What's Covered in This Chapter

In this chapter, we begin the setup of our development environment with the following core tools required for our Java development through the remainder of this book:

• Java Platform Standard Edition (JSE) Development Kit (JDK) setup Because this book is about Java technologies, this is the first software we need to have working before we can do anything else.

• Ant This is the de facto utility for building and deploying Java-based applications.

• JUnit This is a simple unit-testing framework and standard way of unit testing Java code these days.

• Make It All Work Together Finally, we will put together all three technologies and try out a simple unit test.

Note

The complete code for the examples used in this chapter can be found within this book's code zip file (available on the book's website).

In later chapters, we will add to this environment by installing products such as a database, a web server, an IDE, tag libraries, and more.