Setting up for a local datastore

- As demonstrated in the previous lessons,…you can work directly with the cloud datastore,…setting up kinds, entities, and properties.…However, much of your development time will be spent…on your local system as you create your app.…Google provides a command-line tool, GCD,…that allows you to set up a local development server…to emulate your online cloud datastore.…There's a bit of prep involved before you can invoke GCD,…so let's get that out of the way.…Now, you'll need to make sure that you have…Java JDK Version 7 or 8 installed before you get underway.…

To see which version of Java you have,…go to the command-line and enter java-version.…I have 1.7.0_75.…Now if you don't have 1.7 or above,…visit the Oracle site and download and install…the appropriate version of the JDK.…Now make sure you get the JDK…and not the JRE or server JRE.…Ok, I've already downloaded and obviously installed…my Java, I've got a 1.7+, so I'm good to go there.…

Now you're ready to get the GCD tool itself.…So next go to cloud.google.com…