Development Environment
The chapters are intended to be independent of any particular development environment. In Chapter 3, "Setting Up the Development Environment," we discuss the options for a development environment. Whichever environment you initially choose, or to which you subsequently switch, the source code in other chapters will remain useful.
The development platform used in all the examples is Windows. This is not intended to imply that the examples will only work on Windows. The tools Ant, Tomcat, and Axis work on multiple platforms. The J2ME Wireless Toolkit from Sun is also available on Solaris and Linux, and the Palm OS Emulator is available on the Mac and Unix in addition to Windows. Generally, it is noted where tools run on other platforms, but I have not tried to run the tools on other platforms. I have tried to be platform-neutral as much as possible though, so if you are running a desktop operating system other than Windows the book is hopefully still useful to you.
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