Chapter Review

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In this chapter you saw how to install a Java environment on your computer. This consisted of downloading NetBeans from Sun Microsystems and installing it. You were shown how to create a project in NetBeans to hold your first application.

There are three types of Java applications that will be covered in this book. Console Applications, which we saw in this chapter, communicate with text only. Java GUI Applications can have Windows and Forms. Applets are graphical applications that run inside of a web browser.

A very simple program was introduced to show how to execute a console mode application from NetBeans. In the next class chapter, you will be shown how to create an application that makes decisions and processes data.