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AcknowledgmentsFirst off, we naturally wish to thank Mark L. Taub, our acquisitions editor at Prentice Hall PTR, for believing in the book and in open publishing as the way to put it out there. We also want to thank Bruce Perens for lending his name and powers of persuasion to open-content publishing through the Prentice Hall PTR Bruce Peren's Open Source Series. Thanks, too, to Patrick Cash-Peterson and Tyrrell Albaugh, who worked as our in-house production contacts, for all the behind-the-scenes work they did, including overseeing the cover. In more direct terms of content, we owe major thanks to Kirk Vogen of IBM Consulting in Minneapolis for his article on using SWT with gcj , and for his kind help in allowing us to use the ideas he first presented in his IBM developer Works articles. In more direct terms of content, we owe major thanks to: Kirk Vogen of IBM Consulting in Minneapolis for his article on using SWT with gcj , and for his kind help in allowing us to use ideas he first presented in his IBM developerWorks articles; and to Deepak Kumar [8] for graciously allowing us to base our build.xml file for EJBs off of a version that he wrote.
Thanks, too, to Andrew Albing for his help in drawing some of our diagrams, and to George Logajan and to Andy Miller for sharing their insights on the more intricate details of Swing. We also wish to express our great indebtedness to our technical reviewers, especially Andrew Hayes, Steve Huseth, and Dan Moore. A very large thankyou is also due to Alina Kirsanova whose eye for detail, endless patience, and tenacity, and overall talent with proofing, layout, and more added so much refinement and improvement to the book. We are greatful for all their contributions. Any errors or omissions in this text are our fault and certainly not theirs. The book is much stronger for all their efforts. There are likely many more people we ought to thank, especially those at Prentice Hall PTR, whose names and contributions we may never know, but we do know that this was an effort of many more people than just the authors, and we are grateful to them all. |
IntroductionThis book has the unfortunate burden of serving a diverse set of audiences. We realize that this book might appeal to both experienced Java programmers who are new to Linux, and to experienced Linux programmers who are new to Java, with all possible shadings in between. In addition to balancing these two poles, we are also trying to strike a balance between the size of the book and the range of our topic. Fortunately, there is today quite a range of both book and Web publishing on both Java and Linux, so we are able to do our best within the limits of a book a normal person may lift, and we can make recourse to a number of outside references you might wish to use to supplement our efforts. 
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Who Should Buy This BookIf you are an experienced Java programmer, but quite new to Linux, and you have been looking for information on the tools available to develop and deploy Java applications on Linux systems, this book will provide a lot of useful information. If you are an experienced Linux user or developer, and you are interested in using the Java language on that platform, this book will guide you through some advanced Java development topics and will present, we hope, some novel uses for familiar Linux and GNU tools. If you are a rank beginner to either Linux or Java, we still think this book has value, but we would recommend that you use it in conjunction with more introductory books. For a basic introduction to Java and object-oriented programming, we recommend Bruce Eckel's excellent book, Thinking in Java (ISBN 0-13-100287-2). For an introduction to Linux and its tools, we can recommend The Linux Book by David Elboth (ISBN 0-13-032765-4) [1] as an all-around title. We also list several other books in sections titled Resources throughout this book. Many books we recommend are not actually Linux-specific. Since Linux duplicates (in most respects) a UNIX platform, we do occasionally recommend books that are general to all *nix systems.
If you are a developer, contractor, or MIS development manager with more projects than budget, our book will introduce you to many solid tools that are free of license fees for the development and deployment of production Java applications. We are all being asked to do more with less all the time. In many (but certainly not all) cases, Free and Open Source software is an excellent way to do that. |
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Java Application Development with Linux Authors: Schwarz M., Albing C Published year: 2004 Pages: 10-12/292 |
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