Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 On Demand

To run the samples in this book you will need:

• Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition SDK v 1.3 or above. We used the Sun JDK 1.3.1_02 to run all sample code.

• AJ2EE 1.3-compliant application server. We used JBoss 3.0.0 for the sample application.

• An RDBMS. We used Oracle 8.1.7i for the sample application. A free evaluation copy of the "Personal Edition" is available from the Oracle site. Some changes (clearly identified in the text) will need to be made to the sample application to use a database other than Oracle 8.1.7 or above.

To run the sample application, you will need the following third-party libraries:

• Apache Log4j 1.2

• An implementation of the JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) 1.0

To use the testing strategies discussed in Chapter 3, you will need:

• JUnit 3.7 or above

• The Apache Cactus J2EE testing framework

To run all the web content generation examples in Chapter 13 you will need:

• Apache Velocity 1.3

• Lutris XMLC 2.1

• The iText PDF generation library

• The Domify XML generation library

See Appendix A for information on how to install and configure these last four products.

All the third-party products and libraries discussed above are free and open source.

To build the source code you will need Apache Ant 1.4.1 or later, including optional task support.

The complete source code for the samples is available for download from our web site at http://www.wrox.com/. There are two versions of the download: one which contains all the binaries discussed above, and a much smaller bundle that includes only the source code and compiled code discussed in this book. Download the smaller version if you already have, or want to download, the third-party products listed above.