In working through this section on AI Programming in Java, we recommend the reader keep these goals in mind, to think in terms of using Java to embed AI capability in larger, more general programs....

In working through this section on AI Programming in Java, we recommend the reader keep these goals in mind, to think in terms of using Java to embed AI capability in larger, more general programs. Our approach will be to focus most directly on the implementation of the basic AI structures of search and representation in the Java idiom, and leave the more general topics of web programming and large-scale software engineering in Java to the many fine books on these topics. Thus, our intent is to prepare the reader to develop these powerful AI techniques in an object-oriented idiom that simplifies integrating them into practical, large-scale, software applications.