Setting up our development environment
In this section, we show you how to download the source code from GitHub and run the A1 electronics e-commerce application. It is assumed that the user has the following packages installed in his development environment:
Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite (STS): For downloading STS/Eclipse the links are http://spring.io/tools/sts/all and https://eclipse.org/downloads/.
JDK 1.7: The download link is http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html.
Maven 3: For downloading Maven 3, the link is http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi.
Git command line tools: For download the link is http://git-scm.com/downloads.
Eclipse with Maven plugin (m2e): m2e is installed by default when using the STS. You can install the previous M2Eclipse release by using the following update site from within Eclipse, by navigating to Help | Install New Software on http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases.
The following instructions mentioned...
