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The first task I will try and document is setting up a development machine. I have a nice vanilla 64-bit Windows 7 PC with almost nothing installed. Not even a JDK. The first decision I made is to use Grails, current production version, 2.0.4. The second decision was more difficult, which IDE? I haven't worked in Eclipse for quite awhile. I used to have a total Sun fascination including using NetBeans. There is definitely a pun to be made but I'll restrain myself. If Grails support was included in the community edition of IntelliJ IDEA it would receive strong consideration. One of the reasons I chose STS is there are a lot of resources available to help me learn to use the software. This webinar recording got me excited to get going.
When I went to download STS I noticed the following:
The following pre-requisites must be fulfilled in order to install STS:
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7, Apple Mac OS X, Linux
Java Runtime: latest version of JDK 5 or 6 (a JRE will not be enough to use all STS features)
Hardware: 500MB free disk space, 2GB memory
Now I have another decision to make. Is there any reason I wouldn't use Java 6? Additional research may be required. I grabbed the STS version that needs a 64-bit JDK so off to find me some Java. Interesting discovery, I noticed the JRE installed on my 64-bit operating system is a 32-bit version. Might as well get rid of that while I am in setup mode. Wow, Oracle just informed me that 3 billion devices run Java. JDK 6 installed. While installing STS 2.9.2 I have another question. Should I let it install their app server? I am used to Grails having a built-in app server. Do I need vFabric tc Server 2.7.0? I am going to skip it and Maven for now.
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