a complete roadmap of its contents, read chapter 0, which explains what you
need to know first.
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are packaged separately. You can build the Java examples using Ant, but the
C#
and
ASP.NET
examples require Microsoft Visual Studio. You'll find complete
instructions for building and running each example at the Blogapps project web
site, http://blogapps.dev.java.net.
The Blogapps server is a complete blog and wiki server that supports all of
the newsfeed formats and publishing protocols we cover in this book. Chapter 2
explains how to download, install, and start the Blogapps server, which you can
download from the same web site as the examples.
You can also access the source code for this book from the publisher's web site
at www.manning.com/dmjohnson.
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such as
b
, to indicate lines of code that we discuss in notes to the listings.
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