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

   <para>First you need to download JBoss Microcontainer release from
      <ulink
            url="http://labs.jboss.com/jbossmc/downloads">http://labs.jboss.com/jbossmc/downloads
      </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 AS 5.x
      <ulink
            url="http://labs.jboss.com/jbossas/downloads">http://labs.jboss.com/jbossas/downloads
      </ulink>
   </para>
</chapter>
