• 650 Mhz Pentium III
• 384 MB RAM minimum, 512 MB recommended
• 8 GB
• Network connection (Ethernet or token ring card)
• Connection to the Internet

• Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP
• Adobe Acrobat Reader V6.0
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher.
• JDK v1.5.0_03 *
• Tomcat 5.5.9
• Eclipse-SDK-3.0
• HSQLDB 1.7.3.3
• WinZip 8.0 or higher

• JDK v1.5.0_03(jdk-1_5_0_03-windows-i586-p.exe)*

Install and setup the software in the following order:

1. Unzip the Supporting zip file in C:\. This should create C:\WA1332Labs.
2. Receive JDK v1.5.0_03 CD from webage It can be also downloaded at: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.jsp to your local hard drive.
3. Run jdk-1_5_0_03-windows-i586-p.exe and install the JDK accepting all defaults.
4. Add a system environment variable called JAVA_HOME and set it to “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_03” (without the quotes).
5. Reboot the computer .
6. Download Tomcat 5.5.9 from http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-5/archive/v5.5.9/bin/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.zip.
7. Extract the contents of the jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.zip file to C:\.. This will create c:\jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9.
8. Download HSQLDB 1.7.3.3 from http://www.webagesolutions.com/download/hsqldb_1_7_3_3.zip (using the username and password access2) to you local har drive .
9. Extract the contents of the hsqldb_1_7_3_3.zip file to C:\. This will create c:\hsqldb
10. Download Eclipse SDK from here to your local hard drive .
11. Extract the contents of the eclipse-SDK-3.0-win32.zip file to C:\. This will create c:\eclipse.
12. Run c:\eclipse\eclipse.exe
13. A Workspace Launcher dialog will appear. Leave the workspace default directory as “c:\eclipse\workspace”, check “Use this as the default and do not ask again”, and click OK.
14. Close the Eclipse welcome page.
15. Choose the Window > Open Perspective > Java menu option .
16. Close Eclipse and choose OK to the warning message .