What you need for this book
For the installation and upgrade recipes, you will need to have the latest JIRA 7 distribution, which you can download directly from Atlassian at the following link:
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download
You may also need several additional software, including:
- Java SDK : You can get this from http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads
- MySQL: You can get this from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads
For other recipes, the details of where you can get the necessary tools are provided.