Technical requirements

This tutorial has the following technical requirements.

If you require more information on any of these requirements, please contact us.

Contents:

Hardware

Minimum hardware specification:

Component	Specification
CPU	Intel Core 2 Duo or better (ideally Intel Core i7)
Memory	4-GB RAM (ideally 8 GB)
Hard drive	2 GB available space or better
Display	Two 19" screens or better (per pair of delegates)

Component

Specification

CPU

Intel Core 2 Duo or better (ideally Intel Core i7)

Memory

4-GB RAM (ideally 8 GB)

Hard drive

2 GB available space or better

Display

Two 19" screens or better (per pair of delegates)

Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit or Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit

Local administrator privileges.

Permission to edit the hosts file (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts).

Install the following software packages on training computers prior to training. Before installing, read Setting up the development environment.

OpenJDK 8 or OpenJDK 11, with the JAVA_HOME environment variable set to the installation root of the JDK (see Installing Java)
Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (64-bit) or JetBrain’s IntelliJ IDEA
Google Chrome
(Windows only) Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
(Windows only) Cygwin or Git for Windows

Caplin products are not supported on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

Download the following Caplin files in advance of the training and make them available to learners in the lesson:

For detailed installation instructions, see Setting up the development environment.

Each training computer must have Internet access (for downloading software) and be accessible on the network by a fully-qualified host name.

Internet access to the following websites to download project dependencies: