I know this is a beginner's book but do you happen to touch on tools and software used for making creating Java applications simplier (i.e. Eclipse, NetBeans, ANT, etc..,)? Thanks.
Till Date , Only NetBeans supports JDK 7 .For that you need to install latest version of NetBeans IDE 7.0 . Please refer below Link for NetBeans and JDK 7 Configuration.