New book about Java and Free Software

Sun May 12 18:12:00 GMT 2002

Hi there,
It's availabe on Brazil the book "Java em GNU/Linux", a book about using 
Free Software to develop computer programs using the Java programming 
language. I'll not ask for a link from the GCJ web page because I know 
the FSF won't link to anything under a proprietary license, anyway I 
guess many of you would be interested on the book. The sampe programs 
are licensed under the LGPL (I tried to use a free publication license 
for the book contents also, but the local market is too small for a 
publish to try this). Portuguese only, until I can find a publisher on 
the US. :-)
The book assumes a very basic knowledge of Java and starts teaching how 
to install a Java SDK, then how to use SciTE, DDD, GVD, Make and CVS to 
build a productive development environment. When it talks about GUI 
develpoment it uses NetBeans and later it talks about Java and native 
code, where it teaches to use gcj and java-gnome, and the latest 
chapters are about JDBC (using MySQL and PostgreSQL) and web development 
(using Apache JServ, GNU JSP and Apache Tomcat).
Some sample applications are developed using both swing and GTK+, using 
both a "standard" (proprietary) JDK and gcj, and using both GUI and web 
interfaces, so the reader can compare raw performance, ease of 
programming and different coding styles.
The book is availabe from
http://www.altabooks.com.br/livro.asp?codigo=85-88745-25-9
The samples can be downloaded from
http://www.altabooks.com.br/downloads/java-lin.zip
I think this is an important step for the free software community, 
because there's lack of books about development using free software, 
specially from an information systems perspective. I hope all of you who 
can speack portuguese can read my book and send me feedback, and I hope 
my book can help corporations apreciate the value of free software.
[]s, Fernando Lozano