JAVA INFORMATION

CONTENTS

• Java Language Quick Reference
• Java FAQs
• Local Java Resources
• Downloads
• Java Programs
• Tutorial from Sun
• Collection of Special Topics
• Other Documents from Sun
• World of Java
• Java Books
• Bottom of this page

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TOPICS

• Java Language Quick Reference

  Bookmark this page! After you mastered the basics, we want this to be a compilation of links that will be useful as you write and debug your programs.

  1. Yet Another Language Reference: work in progress!
  2. Java 1.4.1 API Documentation: the main entry point.
  3. Hierarchy Tree of all packages
  4. Java 1.4.1 API Index.
  5. Direct entry into the API index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  6. Special Topics: from Sun and Local Collection
  7. Official specification of the Java Language (by their inventors). Be warned: for language experts only.
• Local Java resources:
  1. For your convenience, you can download Java 1.2 HERE.
  2. My collection of Java FAQs.
  3. Our T.A. Archisman Rudra (fall 1999) has a webpage for this class.
  4. Our previous T.A. (fall 1998) Ken Been has some notes on how to run standalone programs and to write applets.
• Java Download:
  Java 1.2 or, Java Development Kit (JDK), from sun.
  Local copy (Wintel version).

  Java Tutorial from Sun:

  1. For users of Windows95/98/NT, jump in here: Your first cup of Java.
     It includes instructions for compiling and running java programs, setting path variables, etc.
  2. Here is a more systematic Trailmap
  3. To learn about applets, jump in here: applets.
     You need to know about html for applets: here is my html primer.
  4. Tutorial Index

  Collection of Special Topics

  1. Java Source Files and Java Archive Files
  2. Java Strings
  3. Classpath for unix or windows.
  4. Abstract Window Toolkit Homepage (AWT)
     NOTE: a more advanced GUI alternative to AWT is "Swing" components (see next topic).
  5. Swing Project (part of JFC)
  6. Javadoc 1.2 Homepage: automatic documentation facility

  World of Java

  1. Overview of the Java Platform
  2. The Java Repository: collection for java programmers.
  3. JavaNumerics is a working group within the Java Grande Forum. This forum addresses Java issues relevant to the scientific computing community (and for solving "Grande Applications").
  4. Java World: FAQs, Columns, News, Related Technologies, etc
  5. Java in education

  Some Java Books

  1. "The Java Programming Language" (Second Edition) by Ken Arnold and James Gosling, Addison-Wesley.
     If there only one Java book you want to buy, I think this might be it. Very well written, accessible, complete, and useful as a reference. One of the authors (Gosling) is a co-inventor of Java.
  2. A Java book "Computing Concepts with Java Essentials" by Cay Horstmann (John Wiley & Sons, 1998):
     -- very well written book
     -- uses its own "ccj" package for I/O.

     "Java Structures" by Duane A. Bailey, McGraw-Hill (1999).

     -- very well written (more like an "essay" on programming style)

     Core Java (Vol.1, Fundamentals) by Horstmann and Cornell