Before You Begin
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Font and Naming Conventions
We use fonts to distinguish between on-screen components (such as menu names and menu items) and Java code or commands. Our convention is to emphasize on-screen components in a sans-serif bold Helvetica font (for example, File menu) and to emphasize Java code and commands in a sans-serif Lucida font (for example, System.out.println()).
Java Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK) 6
The examples in this book were developed with the Java Standard Edition Development Kit (JDK) 6. You can download the latest version of JDK 6 and its documentation from
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