xviiiPreface
Open source tools are also widely used in embedded and cross-platform development.
Chapter 8 provides information using open source tools in such environments. Remote debug-
ging is an important concept and it is explained in this chapter.
Chapter 9 is the last chapter of the book and it provides a basic introduction to open source
Java development.
There is one important thing that you must keep in mind while reading this book. It is not
a tutorial on any language or programming techniques. It is about development tools and how to
use these. You need other books to learn programming languages and techniques.
The book explains the installation procedures of different tools. By the time you read this
book, new versions of these tools may be available. The installation procedures will not vary
drastically in these versions and you can use the steps explained in this book. In fact, most of the
open source tools employ the same compiling and installation procedure that you will note in
this book. This process has been consistent and is expected to remain the same in future as well.
After reading this book, we are very much hopeful that the reader will be able to under-
stand different components of a development system. You will also be able to create such a sys-
tem from scratch using open source tools.
Rafeeq Ur Rehman
Christopher Paul