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IntroductIon

conventIons

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.

Boxes like this one hold important, not-to-be forgotten information that is

directly relevant to the surrounding text.

Notes, tips, hints, tricks, and asides to the current discussion are offset and

placed in italics like this.

References like this one point you to the DVD to watch the instructional video

that accompanies a given lesson.

As for styles in the text:

We highlight new terms and important words when we introduce them.

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We show keyboard strokes like this: Ctrl+A.

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We show file names, URLs, and code within the text like so:

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persistence.properties.

We present code in two different ways:

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We use a monofont type with no highlighting for most code examples.

We use bold to emphasize code that’s particularly important in the present

context.

supportIng packages and code

As you work through the lessons in this book, you may choose either to type in any code and cre-

ate all the packages manually or to use the supporting packages and code files that accompany the

book. All the packages, code, and other support files used in this book are available for download at

www.wrox.com. Once at the site, simply locate the book’s title (either by using the Search box or by

using one of the title lists) and click the Download Code link on t ...