Software

You can access the programs in this browser-based version of this book by using the view-source mechanism in your browser and copying from the display presented.

Unless someone has loaded Java software on your computer for you, you will need to download various tools, such as those available via the following links. Keep in mind that such links tend to become obsolete quickly, so you may need to find more current links by rummaging around on the Internet yourself, starting, perhaps at the Sun Microsystems, Inc. site.

You can download a Java development kit and documentation from Sun Microsystems, Inc. The company also supplies general documentation, which includes the language specification.

You can download a registry-maintaining program, suitable for RMI testing, from Sun Microsystems, Inc.

You can download a servlet-development kit, which includes the servlet server described in Chapter 54, from Sun Microsystems, Inc.

You can download a HTML applet translator which directs the popular browsers to use the latest plug-in Java, rather than their built-in versions.