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If you like this tutorial, you might like Rick s book,

Java Tools for Extreme

Programming

, which was the best selling software development book on Amazon for

three months in 2002 and covers applying Ant, JUnit, Cactus, and more to J2EE

development. You might also like to read other IBM

developerWorks

tutorials that Rick

helped produce and author (see

Resources

on page 31 ).

Rick also contributed two chapters to the book

Mastering Tomcat

on the subjects of

Struts Tutorial and Tomcat development with Ant and XDoclet, as well as many other

publications.

Rick is also speaking this year (2003) at JavaOne on EJB CMP/CMR and XDoclet and

at TheServerSide.com Software Symposium on J2EE development with XDoclet. Rick

has spoken at JDJEdge, WebServicesEdge, and the Complete Programmer Network

software symposiums.

Tools you will need for this tutorial

You will need a current version of the JDK. All of the examples in this tutorial use J2SE

SDK 1.4.1.

All of the examples use Ant build files to build and deploy the Web applications that

contain the examples. This should be no surprise since XDoclet relies on Ant, and the

only interface to XDoclet is through Ant. Ant can be found at the

Ant home page

. The

examples use Ant 1.5.3.

Of course you will need the IBM ETTK. The ETTK can be found at the

ETTK site

. The

examples in this tutorial use version ETTK 1.0, which includes Axis 1.1 release

candidate 2.

It is recommended that you use an Interactive Development Environment (IDE), like

Eclipse, since there are quite a few jar files to manage (this is quite an

understatement). All the examples ship with the projects done in the freely available

Eclipse IDE and are compatible with Eclipse and WebSphere Studio Application

Developer. As long as you configure your environment as suggested, you can use the

Eclipse project files with little additional work. Eclipse or WebSphere Studio Application

Developer is not required, but can be found at the

Eclipse Web Site

and

WebSphere

Studio Application Developer trial

respectively. There is no requirement to use Eclipse,

but the Eclipse project files are provided as a convenience to Eclipse based users.

If you do not use an Eclipse based system, please use some IDE. It saves you time in

the long run.

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