As we worked to establish iDaaS we wanted to ensure that we could enable complex platforms and systems to be extended, developed and delivered. It is very important to keep the end user development experience as simple as possible, our focus is to enable developers to be running in minutes. We have had developers leverage Macs, Windows (Server and Desktop) OS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu for development platforms. We work to support all these technologies and deliver needed scripts (where possible) to try and assist.

These Pre-Requsites are intended to provide the core details of what is needed on any development machine irrespective of OS. As you read these they are the tooling we have gone with due to several reasons, if you wish to use different technologies feel free to add those capabilities in, thats's the power of Open Source, we also anticipate adding more technologies as we continue to progress.

Technology	Purpose and Details
Maven 3.6.x	Maven is a repository framework where vendors can place their libraries in a public site. iDaaS leverages this to pull needed upstream files and even has some of their open-iDaaS already in the Maven repository ecosystem. Maven Site and Installation Link
MySQL 8 - Optional	While we list this in required we have also put in the word optional. If you want to persist data from the auditing components we have developed than we have focused on implementing it with lon standing open source RDBMs technology. However, if you dont want to output the auditing data to an RDBMS then this is not needed (thus the optionality). Furthermore, you could implement another RDBMS like Postgres, SQL Server, etc. MySQL Community Site
Kafka/AMQ-Streams	The platform is a series of decoupled components and leverages Kafka capabilities to help it move and distribute data. We have tested it extensively with any version beyond Kafka 2.5 for some of the key features and enhancements they have implemented upstream. For ease of usage you can also get the latest Kafka release within the code repository, the zip file is within the platform-addons directory. Apache Kafka Download Site Red Hat AM-Q Site and Download
Java 8 SDK	Java is what everything is developed in. While we list JDK 8 SDK you can run a Java SDKs from version 8, 11, 13,14 and 15. We have leveraged all these JDKs and been able to build, compile and run the code within the community leveraging iDaaS. We always recommend to consult upstream technologies to ensure these products are certified and will run beyond a developer machine. We have also seen some tweaks needed in POM files for specific Java versions. OpenJDK Download Site
Java IDE or Editor to Compile and Build	We always want to recommend that resources pick a code editor or IDE they are comfortable with. While this is a personal decision we wanted to provide a few common ones numerous resources have used when building, implementing, contributing to iDaaS. IntelliJ IDEA Site Visual Studio Code Site Eclipse Site Red Hat Developer studio Site
Containers	In order to showcase the containers aspect of our capabilities, and since this is running on a developer desktop we want to ensure we provide some recommendations in line with what other contriubutors and developers use. Docker Desktop Site Code Ready Container Site