What you need for this book
For this book, you will need the following list of software on a laptop or desktop PC:
- Java SE 8 (Java Development Kit) http://java.oracle.com/
- GlassFish 4.1 (https://glassfish.java.net/)
- A decent Java Editor or IDE for coding, such as IntelliJ 14 or better (https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/), Eclipse Kepler or better (http://www.eclipse.org/kepler/), or NetBeans 8.1 or better (https://netbeans.org/)
- Gradle 2.6 or better for building the software, which is a part of this book (http://gradle.org/)
- Chrome Web Browser with Developer Tools (https://developer.chrome.com/devtools)
- Firefox Developer Tools (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Tools)
- Chris Pederick's Web Developer and User Agent Switcher extensions (http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/)