Mastering Blockchain - Second Edition

The development environment – Corda

The development environment for Corda can be set up easily using the following steps. Required software includes the following:

• JDK 8 (8u131), which is available at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
• IntelliJ IDEA Community edition, which is free and available at https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download.
• H2 database platform independent ZIP, and is available at http://www.h2database.com/html/download.html.
• Git, which is available at https://git-scm.com/downloads.
• Kotlin language, which is available for IntelliJ, and more information can be found at https://kotlinlang.org/.

Gradle is another component that is used to build Corda. It is available at https://gradle.org.