Conventions Used in this tutorial

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