A: Initial Requirements

An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) of your choice eg. Netbeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ, Atom, etc. Java JDK7 or 8 A software development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the java programming language. Required for viewing/modifying the source code in your preferred IDE. Apache Maven A java software building and managing tool. https://maven.apache.org/what-is-maven.html Git A Version Control System that allows for developers to collaboratively work on the same code at the same time from their own machines. https://git-scm.com/downloads