Requirements

Stripes makes significant use of several features in Java 1.5 such as Annotations and Generics. It also relies heavily on several Servlet 2.4/JSP 2.0 features. As a result you will need a 1.5 JDK (now available for most major platforms), and a Servlet Container that supports Servlet 2.4. Such containers include Tomcat 5.x, which is free, and newer versions Caucho's excellent Resin (free only for non-commercial use).

It is also expected that the reader has some experience with JSP development, and understands that there exists an Expression Language, though not necessarily too much about it.