Software requirements(JAVA)

For the start following software will do the job: You need to have the latest version of JDK. (J2SE 5.0) You can download it for free from: http://java.sun.com/j2se/

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JAVA IDE’s:

Net Beans: is an open source IDE developed by sun microsystems, you can download it from: http://netbeans.org/index.html

Eclipse: is also an open source IDE developed by eclipse download it from:

http://www.eclipse.org/

JBuilder: is also java IDE developed by Borland and can be downloaded from:

www.codegear.com/en/products/jbuilder

Notepad: (Windows)

Notepad++: http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/

And, if you are using notepad/notepad++ then you would have to set path to run java program.

 

There are two ways:
     

Using Command Prompt:

Write following command in command prompt

  c:\>set path="c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin";.

(But through this way every time you open a command prompt after closing you have to set/write the above path again and again before compiling a java program) so must set the environment variable. See below.
       

Set Environment Variable:

1. Write click on My Computer and go to properties.

2. Select the environment variables under advanced tab (in Xp).

3. If you are using windows vista/7 then choose the advanced system settings then select environment variables.

Then edit Path variable from the list and write variable value = c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_20\bin and press okay.

Now your path is set.