Conventions

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To help you get the most from the text and keep track of what's happening, we've used a number of conventions throughout the book.

For instance:

These boxes hold important, not-to-be forgotten information which is directly relevant to the surrounding text.

While the background style is used for asides to the current discussion.

As for styles in the text:

• When we introduce them, we highlight important words.

• We show keyboard strokes like this: Ctrl-A.

• We show filenames and code within the text like so: doGet()

• Text on user interfaces and URLs are shown as: Menu.

We present code in three different ways. Definitions of methods and properties are shown as follows:

    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)                         throws ServletException, IOException 

Example code is shown:

    In our code examples, the code foreground style shows new, important,        pertinent code    while code background shows code that's less important in the present context,        or has been seen before. 

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