What software you need
This book is designed to work with Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (J2SE 5.0). This version of the Java 2 Platform includes the Java Development Kit (JDK). For marketing reasons, Sun sometimes refers to this version as JDK 5.0. However, Java developers commonly refer to this version as 1.5.0 or just 1.5.
You can download JDK 5.0 and its documentation for free from the web site for Sun Microsystems. To make that easier for you, chapter 1 describes and explains the procedures that you will use. This chapter also shows you how to download and install TextPad, a text editor that's designed for working with Java. And that's all the software you will need for developing professional Java applications like the ones presented in the book.
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