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The required steps are outlined in the following subsections.</p> <div class="subsection"><h4 id="JDK">JDK</h4><div class="text"> <p>Tomcat 8.0 was designed to run on Java SE 7. </p> <p>Compatible JDKs for many platforms (or links to where they can be found) are available at <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html">http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html</a>.</p> </div></div> <div class="subsection"><h4 id="Tomcat">Tomcat</h4><div class="text"> <p>Binary downloads of the <strong>Tomcat</strong> server are available from <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/">https://tomcat.apache.org/</a>. This manual assumes you are using the most recent release of Tomcat 8. Detailed instructions for downloading and installing Tomcat are available <a href="../setup.html">here</a>.</p> <p>In the remainder of this manual, example shell scripts assume that you have set an environment variable <code>CATALINA_HOME</code> that contains the pathname to the directory in which Tomcat has been installed. Optionally, if Tomcat has been configured for multiple instances, each instance will have its own <code>CATALINA_BASE</code> configured.</p> </div></div> <div class="subsection"><h4 id="Ant">Ant</h4><div class="text"> <p>Binary downloads of the <strong>Ant</strong> build tool are available from <a href="https://ant.apache.org/">https://ant.apache.org/</a>. This manual assumes you are using Ant 1.8 or later. The instructions may also be compatible with other versions, but this has not been tested.</p> <p>Download and install Ant. Then, add the <code>bin</code> directory of the Ant distribution to your <code>PATH</code> environment variable, following the standard practices for your operating system platform. Once you have done this, you will be able to execute the <code>ant</code> shell command directly.</p> </div></div> <div class="subsection"><h4 id="CVS">CVS</h4><div class="text"> <p>Besides the required tools described above, you are strongly encouraged to download and install a <em>source code control</em> system, such as the <strong>Concurrent Version System</strong> (CVS), to maintain historical versions of the source files that make up your web application. Besides the server, you will also need appropriate client tools to check out source code files, and check in modified versions.</p> <p>Detailed instructions for installing and using source code control applications is beyond the scope of this manual. However, CVS server and client tools for many platforms (along with documentation) can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.cvshome.org/">http://www.cvshome.org/</a>.</p> </div></div> </div><div class="noprint"><h3 id="comments_section"> Comments </h3><div class="text"><p class="notice"><strong>Notice: </strong>This comments section collects your suggestions on improving documentation for Apache Tomcat.<br><br> If you have trouble and need help, read <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/findhelp.html">Find Help</a> page and ask your question on the tomcat-users <a href="https://tomcat.apache.org/lists.html">mailing list</a>. Do not ask such questions here. This is not a Q&A section.<br><br> The Apache Comments System is explained <a href="../comments.html">here</a>. 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