Set up the environment

In order to develop our Web Application we need to install and configure some tools: in particular in this post I will explain how to set up the initial environment.

• IDE: I choose to use Eclipse because I am more familiar with it respect to other IDEs like NetBeans. Eclipse doesn't need any installation, it is enough to unzip it in the folder you prefer. You can download eclipse here. 
• JBoss5.1: Also JBoss doesn't need any installation, as for eclipse it is enough to unzip the archive downloadable here in the place you want. To start jboss you need to enter the jboss folder and run the script file run.sh (for unix users, use the run.bat if you use windows) that you can find in the bin subfolder.

• Database: MySQL5.1, the installation file can be downloaded here. We also need the java connector. command:/path/to/MySQLInstallationFolder/bin/bin/mysql -u root -p -h localhost
• phpMyAdmin (optional): a simple tool to handle the administration of MySQL. To download it and get more information take a look here.