What You Need to Use this Book

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Most of the code in this book was tested with the Java 2 SDK version 1.3 (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/) and Apache Tomcat 4 (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/). However, running the examples in some chapters will require some additional software.

Several of the chapters require access to a database. For these chapters we have used MySQL (version 3.23) and the MM.MySQL JDBC driver (version 2.0.6). You can download both of these from http://www.mysql.com. The download includes full installation instructions.

There are several other pieces of software that a couple of chapters also require:

• Java 2 SDK version 1.4 - http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/

• The JavaBeans Activation Framework - http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/glasgow/jaf.html

• XML Parsers, we have used Apache Xerces - http://xml.apache.org/xerces-j/index.html and the Apache Xalan XSLT processor - http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/

• Apache SOAP 2.2 - from http://xml.apache.org/soap/index.html

• Apache AXIS - from http://xml.apache.org/axis/index.html

The code in the book will work on a single machine, provided it is networked (that is, it can see http://localhost/ through the local browser).

The complete source code from the book is available for download from:

http://www.apress.com/

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