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2 CHAPTER 1 ■ A PRIMER

If you have any other Java Runtimes installed on your machine, make sure you set your
Eclipse preferences to this path, as shown in Figure 1-1.

Figure 1-1. The Eclipse JRE setup

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You can add this JAR to your project. This way you should be able to call the classes from
your own project with your own programs.

Serial Link Setup
If you don’t have a serial port (some new computers only come with USB connectors),
I recommend you get a USB nine-pin serial adapter, shown next in Figure 1-2.