First things first, let's create a working directory for our project.
Now, let's navigate to Hazelcast's download page:
www.hazelcast.com/downloads.jsp
The following image shows what the downloading page should look like:
We will use the latest version, in this case Version 2.6.
Note
While there is nothing stopping you working with the enterprise edition, there is nothing within this book that requires it. For our purposes, the community edition will do just fine.
In unpacking the archive, you will find a lib/ directory. This contains the various library JAR files we could use within our application. For now, let's copy lib/hazelcast-2.6.jar to our working directory.