Development Environment Introduction

Table 1 describes the environment required for secondary development.

**Table 1** Development environment
Item	Description
OS	Windows OS. Windows 7 or later is recommended.
JDK installation	Basic configurations of the development environment. JDK 1.7 or 1.8 is required. You are recommended to use JDK 1.8 for better compatibility of later versions. NOTE: For security purpose, CloudTable supports only TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 encryption protocols. IBM JDK supports only 1.0 by default. If you use IBM JDK, set com.ibm.jsse2.overrideDefaultTLS to true. After the parameter setting, TLS1.0/1.1/1.2 can be supported at the same time. For details, see the related instructions on the IBM official website.
Eclipse installation and configuration	It is a tool used to develop CloudTable applications.
Network	Ensure that the development environment or client can communicate with the network of the CloudTable server.