Install Java7 and maven3. You can use maven from the command line. Eclipse and IntelliJ have support for maven. Create a GitHub account. Fork this git project (so you have an exact copy of it in your github account afterwards) and clone it (making a local copy).
- Q: maven cannot download stratosphere packages (eu.stratospere ...)
- A: check your $HOME/.m2/settings.xml: It should not contain a line
<mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>but<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>. - Q: I want to know more about Geometry Functions and Datatypes
- A: Check out the Simple Feature Specification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Features) the popular postgresql extension PostGIS (http://postgis.net/docs/manual-2.1/) and the java implementation JTS (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/)