Conventions Used in This Book

Italic is used for:

• The names of syntactic constructs and lexical structures in the Java language

• New terms where they are defined

• Pathnames, filenames, and program names

• Internet addresses, such as domain names and URLs

Typewriter Font is used for:

• Anything that might appear in a Java program, including keywords, operators, data types, constants, method names, variable names, class names, and interface names

• Command lines and options that should be typed verbatim on the screen

• Tags that might appear in an HTML document