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<chapter id="installation">
  <title>Download and Installation</title>

  <para>First you need download JBoss Microcontainer release from <ulink
  url="http://www.jboss.com/downloads/index">http://www.jboss.com/downloads/index</ulink></para>

  <para>Unpack the archive which will give you a microcontainer-x.y.z
  directory with the following subfolders:</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para>docs/api - javadocs for the microcontainer</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>docs/gettingstarted - this getting started documentation</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>docs/licences - the licenses for the software</para>
    </listitem>
    <listitem>
      <para>examples - the examples explained in the next chapter</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para>lib - the libraries required to run the microcontainer</para>
    </listitem>

  </itemizedlist>

  <para>You will also need a JDK of version 1.4.x+ and a copy of Apache Ant
  1.6+</para>

  <para>If you want to run the examples inside JBoss AS, you will need to
  download JBoss-4.0.3 or later <ulink
  url="http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossas/downloads">http://www.jboss.com/products/jbossas/downloads</ulink></para>
</chapter>
