Technical Requirements for Onsite Training
There are a number of technical requirements that you will need to meet for us to successfully deliver your on-site training.
If you require more information on any of these requirements, please contact us.
Each training computer must be of the following specification or better:
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) |
Operating system
Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit or Microsoft Windows 10 64-bit
User privileges
Local administrator privileges.
Permission to edit the hosts file (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
).
Software
Pre-install the following software packages on each training computer:
-
OpenJDK 8 or OpenJDK 11, with the
JAVA_HOME
environment variable set to the installation root of the JDK (see Installing Java) -
IDE with Gradle support. For example, Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers (64-bit) or JetBrain’s IntelliJ IDEA
-
[Microsoft Windows] Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015
-
[Microsoft Windows] Cygwin or Git Bash (installed as part of Git for Windows)
For detailed installation instructions, see Setting up the development environment.
Arrange for the following files to made available to learners:
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Caplin Deployment Framework installation kit
-
Liberator installation kit
-
Transformer installation kit
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Training branch of the Caplin Project Templates repository on GitHub: https://github.com/caplin/project-templates/tree/training. If you do not ordinarily have access to the GitHub site, download the training branch in advance of the training.
Network access
Each training computer must have Internet access (for downloading software) and be accessible on the network by a fully-qualified host name.