Java Resources

• General links
• Books about Java
• Development environments
• Compilers and JVMs
• Toolkits and re-usable code
• Developer links
• Database Connectivity
• Security
• Tutorials
• Vendors
• Games

General links

• JavaSoft (Sun subsidiary)
• JDK Documentation
  • Current JDK documentation top level
  • Current API index
  • API index (1.0.2)
  • Bug list (1.1)
• comp.lang.java FAQ
• The Java Glossary - maintained by Roedy Green
• Gamelan - "The official directory for Java"
• RoastedNews - press releases compiled by Natural Intelligence, the Roaster people.
• The Java News Network - Links to news about Java, collected automatically by an intelligent agent. Maintained by Stephen Pietrowicz, former maintainer of a Java Book review site.

Java books and book reviews

• Java Tutorial - Javasoft
• IBM Java site Book reviews
• JavaWorld Book Catalog Index
• Java Pages - books about Java
• Java book reviews - calSur Internet, in cooperation with Amazon.com
• Graphic Java - Geary/McClellan
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel
• John Zukowski's recommended Java book list - Author of the AWT Reference from O'Reilly

Development environments

• Apple Mac OS Runtime for Java
  • Apple's Java Developer's page
  • MRJ FAQ - From Apple
  • MRJ Explained for Windows and Unix developers - Colin Stewart, York University
  • MRJ FAQ - From Beta Nine
  • Java on the Mac FAQ - collected from MRJDev mailing list by Mark Fardal
• CodeWarrior - Metrowerks' IDE/Compiler environment
• Javasoft JDK
• Kawa
• IBM VisualAge for Java - IBM IDE (a bug sometimes causes the anchor text for this url -- https://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/ -- to disappear.)

Compilers and JVMs

• guavac - the GNU Java compiler
• Jump - a Java bytecode compiler with C++-like language extensions
• kaffe - a GNU JVM
• Pizza - a compiler for a superset of Java
  • US Mirror site

Toolkits and re-usable code

• JConfig - a cross-platform library designed to make it easier to create shrink-wrap style applications in Java. (local copy of docs)
• Free icon images - Freely available icons, provided by Dean S. Jones
• Site selector - Applet that allows a hierarchical menu of browsable URLs to be constructed.
• Java Generic Library - Objectspace; free library of generic container classes.
  • JGL 2.0 documentation (local copy)
• JavaPureCheck - a tool for testing Java classes for 100% pure Java compliance (Local copy of docs)
• Gamelan - "The official directory for Java"
• JavaWorld
• Java Shareware repository
• Jef Pozkanzer's Java code
• subArctic User Interface Toolkit Home Page - GaTech
• Java version of Xtango - Algorithm animation library ( Stephen Hartley, Drexel)
• Example Java Applets
• Grid Bag Manipulator - a (sort of) visual GridBagLayout construction kit.

Java Developer Pages

• Java Developer Connection
• JavaSoft Developer Early Access page (JDC Password required)
• Cup O' Joe Java Update
• Focus on Java - John Zukowski, editor
• Java Programmers' FAQ - Peter van der Linden
• Markus Reith's Java Developers page
• The Java Developer (Digital Focus)
• Java Home - An IBM Resource for Java Developers and Business Professionals
• Javology (Magnastar's electronic java magazine)
• Java Workshop Troubleshooting (unofficial)
• Java Optimization tips (Jonathan Hardwick)
• JavaUniverse - formerly Javazine
• Java Audio web page - maintained by Greg Sandell

Database Connectivity

• JDBC Database Access API - Javasoft
• JDBC FAQ - Javasoft
• Roedy Green's JDBC stuff
• Java mSQL Driver
  • mSQL JDBC driver API docs - (local copy)
  • mSQL - Hughes Technologies' "Mini-SQL" database server.
  • mSQL FAQ - (local copy)
• Databases written in Java
  • Decibel - free back end from NCSA, implements a subset of SQL and JDBC (Document is now missing, and I can't find a new location for it.)
  • jDB - a free database back end written in Java
  • SimpleText - Thought, Inc. demo flat file database, free
  • InstantDB - Peter Hearty, Instant Computer Solutions, free (Local Copy of Docs)
  • JDBMS, Cloudscape
  • Object Design PSE - single user, free
• Free databases with JDBC drivers
  • MySQL (Unix only)
    • MySQL - from T.c.X. DataKonsultAB (Sweden)
    • MySQL-JDBC driver - from GWE Technologies (Wales)
  • PostgreSQL - Unix only, derived from Berkeley PostGres, distributed with JDBC drivers

Java Security

• JavaSoft's Applet Security FAQ
• Princeton Safe Internet Programming Team Secure Internet Programming web site

On-line Java Tutorials

• For "newbies" - by Mukhi, Kotecha and Tripathi
• JavaSoft Tutorial

Vendors of Java-related software

• Marimba, Inc - Castanet vendor

Games written in Java

• Asteroids - Newsoft (UK)
• Asteroids - (NO)
• Relada Games (Video Poker, Mines)