Conventions Used in This Book

Conventions Used in This Book

There are some conventions I'll use that you should know about. When there's a new piece of code under discussion, it will appear highlighted; when there's more code to come, you'll see three dots. Here's what that looks like:

import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;

public class Project extends Task 
{
    private String language;

    public void execute( ) throws BuildException 
    {
        System.out.println("The language is " + language);
    }

public void setLanguage(String language)


{


this.language = language;

.
        .
        .

}

}

Note that I'll use the standard convention for selecting menu items in this book when menu items come into play (as when we use Ant in the Eclipse IDE). For instance, to create a new project in Eclipse, you use the File New Project menu item.

The following typographical conventions are used in this book:

Plain text

Indicates menu titles, menu options, menu buttons , and keyboard accelerators.

Italic

Indicates new terms, URLs, email addresses, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, directories, and Unix utilities.

Constant width

Indicates commands, options, switches, variables , types, classes, namespaces, methods , modules, properties, parameters, values, objects, events, event handlers, or XML tags.

Constant width italic

Shows text that should be replaced with user -supplied values.

Constant width bold

 

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What You'll Need

All the software you'll need in this book can be downloaded from the Internet for free. You'll need Antthis book was written using Ant 1.6.1and I'll discuss where to get Ant in Chapter 1. Other software packages are used at various points in the book, such as the AntHill build server or the Eclipse IDE (Chapter 11 is on using Ant in Eclipse), and I'll show where to download all the requisite software as it's needed. It's all free.