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

[Jeffrey M. <Jef...@Br...>]

This is great news.  I will update the site to include
a link sometime in the next day or so.  I would love to
read what you had to say about the bindings but I 
only speak English.  Please keep the list updated on
how you book is accepted and your progress toward finding 
a US publisher.

-Jeff

> 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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