Let's get started

First things first, let's create a working directory for our project.

Navigate to Hazelcast's download page. To download Hazelcast, visit www.hazelcast.org/download/.

The following image shows what the download page looks like:

We will use the latest version, in this case, Version 3.5.

Note

While there is nothing stopping you from working with Hazelcast Enterprise, there is nothing within this book that requires it. For our purposes, the community version will do just fine.

When you unzip the archive, you will find a lib/ directory. This contains the various library JAR files that we can use within our application. For now, let's copy lib/hazelcast-3.5.jar to the working directory.