Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Proof Of Concept - 3 of 8: Install Java SDK and Netbeans

Java Standard Edition Software Development Kit ( SE SDK) and NetBeans IDE must be installed in order to compile and run Java programs. Go to Sun's Java SE Downloads page and locate JDK 5.0 Update 17 with NetBeans IDE 6.5. As of this writing, Java latest release is JDK 6 Update 11. I was going to use this latest release, but after reading through some postings on IB's TWS API forum, some users experienced performance problems with JDK 6 and IB's API. This was not the case with JDK 5. So I've decided to use this the older.

The installation process installs Java SE SDK, Java SE Runtime Environment, and NetBeans IDE in separate folders. Mine are in c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_17, c:\Program Files\Java\jre1.5.0_17, and c:\Program Files\NetBeans 6.5. Make a note of these as they will be needed later.

To check installation, run NetBeans and run sample projects that came with it. Just select the project and Run the project (F6).

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