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Installing Java JDK on Windows - Your first step towards Java Development

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There are lot of help and tutorials available for you to install JDK and would recommend to follow the oracle help for the installation. But as a windows users, may follow below if you want to save some time Download JDK from below link http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads      Install JDK and JRE. Its a simple wizard. Setup following environment variables.  Go to My Computer,  Right click and select properties Click advance system settings Click Environment Variables Add following environment variable JAVA_HOME JRE_HOME Add following at the of you PATH (Environment) variable ;%JAVA_HOME%\bin Go to command prompt and type following command to test your setup java -version It should display the installed JDK version Environment Variables Path Variable

Installing Grails

I would really like the video at the following location https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu3GgjuUOtg Following are steps for installing it on windows environment Install JDK.  You may use my other post to save some time :) Download grails from below link https://grails.org/download.html Unzip files and copy to one location says c:\grails Define environment variable GRAILS_HOME and set it to path used in previous step Add following at the of you PATH (Environment) variable ;%GRAILS_HOME%\bin Go to command prompt and type following command to test your setup grails -version It should display the installed grails version cd %GRAILS_HOME% it should take you to grails directory grails create-app HelloWorld It should create application name hello world. You can use any name for your application cd HelloWorld It should takes you to newly created application grails run-app It should start application.  If firewall gives any warning then we should al