Download and install the junit test tool

you need and where to obtain them. You can learn more about each of these tools from their respective websites.

All of the source examples can be built using the appropriate Ant build file. To build a particular example:

I Unpack the book’s source code (available at www.manning.com/shigeoka)

author online

Free access to a private Internet forum, Author Online, is included with the pur-chase of this book. Visit the website for detailed rules about the forum, to sub-scribe to and access the forum, to retrieve the code for each chapter and section, and to view updates and corrections to the material in the book. Make comments, good or bad, about the book; ask technical questions, and receive help from the author and other Jabber programmers. The forum is available at the book’s web-site at www.manning.com/shigeoka.

acknowledgments

I’d like to first thank my parents, Clifford and Blanche, who have been extremely supportive in the production of this book. From room and board to pats on the back, they’ve been essential to the book’s completion. In addition, my brother Orin and sister Cassie have made sure to “encourage” me in their own unique ways. Thanks guys.

about the cover illustration

The figure on the cover of this book is a “Gobenador de la Abisinia,” the governor of Abyssinia, today called Ethiopia. While the exact meaning of his office and responsibilities is for us lost in historical fog, there is no doubt that we are facing a man of authority and power. The illustration is taken from a Spanish compen-dium of regional dress customs first published in Madrid in 1799. The book’s title page states:

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