Running MySQL and Java on your desktop for development

So you have have a business idea and you have to have a web application that interacts with your clients, helps them place and order and lets you full fill that order, get the payment, ship it and do post processing etc. Where do you start from?

Lets start with the core - your database, because if your business is going to grow you need to be able to be dynamic, scale well and manage information (that is the "I" in "IT") - yeah?

So ... the easiest thing to do is to start by running a Database Server and then write a program in Java, PHP, Python and Ruby to connect to it ... just to understand what it takes to do all that.

I will start with Java in the example below and download XAMPP that will run the DB server for me and help me do PHP stuff later too.

1. Download XAMPP - It has Apache, Tomcat, MySQL in a single install
   
   • XAMPP Link - http://www.apachefriends.org/

1. Download MySQL Connector for Java
   
   • MySQL Download - http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
   
   
   • MySQL Connector J Download - http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/j/
   
   


2. Download Eclipse
   
   • Eclipse - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/