Conventions Used in this tutorial

Italic is used for:

  • Pathnames, filenames, and program names
  • New terms where they are defined
  • Internet addresses, such as domain names and URLs

Constant width is used for:

  • Anything that appears literally in a Java program, including keywords, datatypes, constants, method names, variables, class names, and interface names
  • All Java code listings
  • HTML, XML, and XSLT documents, tags, and attributes

Constant width italic is used for:

  • General placeholders that indicate that an item is replaced by some actual value in your own program

Constant width bold is used for:

  • Command-line entries
  • Emphasis within a Java or XML source file