Database Programming with JDBC & Java, Second Edition By George Reese
August 2000
Pages: 348

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Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animals on the cover of Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Second Edition, are springboks (Antidorcas marsupialis). These gazelles are the national animal of South Africa, and in addition to their habitats in the western parts of that country, they can also be found in the arid plains of Angola, Namibia, and Botswana.



Springboks are about 55-63 inches long and stand 24-30 inches tall at the shoudler; they average 80-90 pounds in weight. Both males and females have horns, but the males' are longer and thicker. They usually group in small herds, though they have been known to migrate in groups numbering in the thousands. A female springbok generally has one lamb per pregnancy, after a gestation period of about 24 weeks.



The name "springbok" comes from the animal's distinctive habit of springing repeatedly up to 7 feet straight into the air when nervous. This activity is called pronking, and it is accomplished with straight legs and an arched back. Springboks pronk in hopes of distracting predators, like the cheetahs, lions, hyenas, and wild dogs who'd like nothing more than a springbok lunch. But it's not just predators who startle these jumpy gazelles: springboks have been known to pronk at the flash of lightning or crash of thunder-which can cause a veritable stampede of pronking springboks-and even at the sight of a new watering hole. Ann Schirmer was the copyeditor and interior compositor for Database Programming with JDBC and Java, Second Edition. Catherine Morris, Claire Cloutier, and Jane Ellin performed quality control reviews. Mary Anne Weeks Mayo proofread the book. Judy Hoer wrote the index.



The cover was designed by Emma Colby using a series design by Edie Freeman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC Garamond font.



Alicia Cech and David Futato designed the interior layout based on a series design by Nancy Priest. Mike Sierra implemented the design in FrameMaker 5.5.6. The heading font is Bodoni BT; the text font is New Baskerville. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano and Rhon Porter using Macromedia Freehand 8 and Adobe Photoshop 5. This colophon was written by Leanne Soylemez.

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