System Requirements
– 2 gigs of RAM
– 10 gigs of hard drive space

Windows or Linux – the VMware Player. Free.
Mac OSx – VMware Fusion. Free 30day trial.

The software list follows:
This starts with a LAMP setup. LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. This combination of software is a common configuration for running PHP web applications. This has little to do with running Java, but does allow phpmyadmmin to be run. This is a web based MySQL database administration application. It’s easy to use and popular for administering a database from a remote site.

Ubuntu 8.10 – updated July 18th with all patches and fixes.

Apache 2.0 – web server

MySQL – version 5.0 – Version 5.0.67-0ubuntu

PHP version 5 – a web application programming language.

phpmyadmin – A PHP based web application for administrating MySQL

Eclipse Europa. – This is the base version of eclipse with few plugins.

JBoss Developer Studio Community Edition – If you like this version the release is available for a mere $99 from here.

jre 1.6.0 update 14
Installed to /usr/java/jre1.6.0_14

Java EE 5 SDK with jdk 1.6.0 update 14
Installed to /usr/java/SDK

Subversion version 1.5 – a source code control system.

subclipse version 1.4 – integration of subversion into eclipse.

Once the file has downloaded, extract the files contained in the Ubuntu.tar.gz archive. To do this, on windows use winzip. On Linux and MAC use tar like this: tar -xvf Ubuntu.tar.gz

Inside the archive are two files.

1. Ubuntu-disk1.vmdk
2. Ubuntu.vmx

Next run the VMware player. Once the program loads, click “Open Existing Virtual Machine”, and browse to the directory where you extracted the files from the archive. Select UBuntu.vmx and click Open.