Introduction

This is where our journey begins. In this chapter, we'll learn how to set up our environment for developing applications on JBoss AS correctly. Installation of the components is not particularly tricky, but it needs a few steps to be performed and quite a lot of Kbytes to be downloaded.

This is our checklist:

The products listed in this chapter are the latest versions at the time of writing and we diligently updated it at every new release. Don't worry if a new stable release of these products is released in the next months; all you have to do is adapt the chapter instructions to the newest file names.