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The animal on the cover of Java Examples in a Nutshell, Third
Edition, is an alligator. There are only two species of alligator: the
American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), found in the
southeastern coastal plain of the United States, and the smaller
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis), found in the lower valley of
the Yangtze River. Both alligators are related to the more widely
distributed crocodile.
The alligator is a much-studied animal, so a great deal is known
about its life cycle. Female alligators lay 30 to 80 eggs at a
time. The mother allows the sun to incubate the eggs, but stays
nearby. After about 60 days the eggs hatch, and the young call out for
their mother. The mother then carries or leads them to the water,
where they live with her for a year.
Alligators eat a varied diet of insects, fish, shellfish, frogs,
water birds, and small mammals. Alligator attacks on humans are
rare. Although normally slow-moving animals, alligators can charge
quickly for short distances when they or their young are in
danger.
Alligators have been hunted extensively for their skin. The
American alligator was placed on the endangered species list in 1969,
then declared to be out of danger in 1987. The Chinese alligator
remains on the endangered list.
Genevieve d'Entremont was the production editor and copyeditor
for Java Examples in a Nutshell, Third Edition. Emily Quill, Reg
Aubry, and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Jamie Peppard and
Matt Hutchinson provided production assistance. Julie Hawks updated
the index.
Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book. The cover image
is a 19th-century engraving from Old Fashioned Animal Cuts. Emma Colby
produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe's ITC
Garamond font.
Melanie Wang designed the interior layout, based on a series
design by David Futato. This book was converted by Joe Wizda to
FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray,
Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML
technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is
Adobe Myriad Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono
Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by
Robert Romano using Adobe Photoshop 6. This colophon was written by
Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.
The online edition of this book was created by the Safari
production group (John Chodacki, Becki Maisch, and Madeleine Newell)
using a set of Frame-to-XML conversion and cleanup tools written and
maintained by Erik Ray, Benn Salter, John Chodacki, and Jeff
Liggett.
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