While you will almost certainly do the majority of your Java development in an IDE such as Eclipse, NetBeans, or (the author’s favorite, Intellij IDEA), all of the core tools you need to build Java applications are included in the Java Development Kit (JDK) that you have likely already downloaded from Oracle for version 7. In this chapter, we’ll discuss some of these command-line tools that you can use to compile, run, and package Java applications. There are many additional developer tools included in the JDK that we’ll discuss throughout this book.
For an introduction to the Eclipse IDE and instructions for loading all of the examples in this book as an Eclipse project, see Appendix A. In Chapter 22, we introduce the NetBeans IDE with our discussion of the JavaBeans component architecture, so you will get additional GUI development environment experience there.
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