Re: [Java-gnome-developer] New book about Java and Free Software

[Fernando L. <fer...@lo...>]

Hi there,

It's availabe on Brazil the book "Java em GNU/Linux", a book about using 
Free Software to develop using the Java programming language. Maybe 
you'll like to put a link on the java-gome page at SourceForge. 
Portuguese only, until I can find a publisher on the US. :-)

The book assumes a very basic knowledge of Java and starts teaching how 
to install a Java SDK, then how to use SciTE, DDD, GVD, Make and CVS to 
build a productive development environment. When it talks about GUI 
develpoment it uses NetBeans and later it talks about Java and native 
code, where it teaches to use gcj and java-gnome, and the latest 
chapters are about JDBC (using MySQL and PostgreSQL) and web development 
(using Apache JServ, GNU JSP and Apache Tomcat).

Some sample applications are developed using both swing and GTK+, using 
both a "standard" (proprietary) JDK and gcj, and using both GUI and web 
interfaces, so the reader can compare raw performance, ease of 
programming and different coding styles.

The book is availabe from
http://www.altabooks.com.br/livro.asp?codigo=85-88745-25-9

The sampe programs are licensed under the LGPL (I tried to use a free 
publication license for the book contents also, but the local market is 
too small for a publish to try this). The samples can be downloaded from
http://www.altabooks.com.br/downloads/java-lin.zip

I think this is an important step for the free software community, 
because there's lack of books about development using free software, 
specially from an information systems perspective. I hope all of you who 
can speack portuguese can read my book and send me feedback, and I hope 
my book can help corporations apreciate the value of free software.

[]s, Fernando Lozano