By Mark J. Guzdial, Kimberly M. Rose; Prentice Hall, 2002, ISBN 0130280917. Draws on Squeak community, explores digital music and sound, advanced user interfaces, 3-D graphics, Flash animation, virtual machine building. [Prentice Hall]

Explains the base architecture as well as the services and facilities that extend this architecture. (Alan Pope)

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Overview of XML programming techniques, standard APIs, and tools.