From the course: Java EE: Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)

What you should know

From the course: Java EE: Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP)

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What you should know

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- [Narrator] To get the most out of this course I recommend a few things to get you started. It would be very good to have a hands on with the fundaments of core Java APIs as we call Java standard editions. It would be very good to have a good hands-on with the Java Database Connectivity API which is used to transact against the database. Then, any usage of IDE that is integrated in a developing environment by Eclipse, Netbeans, Intelligio, or any other would do. A basic hands on of databases would be necessary because we are going to build an application which is going to converse with the database. And lastly, we need to display pages on the browser, which means there will be HTML and CSS code in all those pages. So an acquaintance of that is really going to be helpful. There are a few terminologies that we may need to use as a part of this course. The first one is API, which is application programming interface so any class, any method that we refer from the Java Standard Edition or Java Enterprise Edition forms an API. The next one is JAR, which is Java Archive, which is basically a bundle of class files that are external to your project. You may need to include them in the built part of your project. Build path, on the other hand, or as we say class path, is the location of all the user refined classes that you have used in your web application so that your compiler finds them and appropriately uses them when it wants to run your app. Now lets take a look at the software prerequisites for this course. We would need Java Development Kit, JDK 1.6 version or higher. There is a link has been shown on the website through which you can download that EXC and install it on your machine. Then we would absolutely need an Eclipse IDE which is the Integrated Development Environment, the one-stop solution to do all our development activity. We would be going for the Java Enterprise Eclipse IDE, the Mars version. However, you can choose any version starting from Eclipse Kepler. The linked download Eclipse has been given on this slide. Up next, we would need Apache Tomcat 7.0 server. Now this is very critical. This is a server software that is downloadable from the link mentioned on this slide. You have two options. You can either download this software as a ZIP and extract it to an appropriate folder on the machine or you may install the EXE so that it gets installed as a service under your operating system. We are going to deploy the application on the server and test out the application on the browser for which we would need a browser software. So you can pick up Google Chrome or Firefox or Microsoft Edge, the latest version. Lastly, our application is going to talk to the database so we would need a database server. We have chosen MySQL database server. However, you're free to choose any other which you are comfortable with.

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