The tools we need for this course are
- JAVA7 or above (Ensure you set JAVA_HOME environment variable. This variable is needed for eclipse ide and tomcat)
- Install Eclipse ide for java ee (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/mars1. After downloading extract the zip file and place the contents zip under location of your choice)
- Setup tomcat and link it to eclipse(Follow the steps at http://crunchify.com/step-by-step-guide-to-setup-and-install-apache-tomcat-server-in-eclipse-development-environment-ide/)
- A chrome plugin like Advanced Rest Client,Postman to invoke web services from the browser
- Download the JAX-WS libraries from https://jax-ws.java.net/. Choose Download Latest. These libraries are needed to develop SOAP web services without spring
- Download latest Jersey api from https://jersey.java.net/download.html. These libraries are needed to develop REST web services without spring.
