Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Lists

• Getting Started
• Sun's Java FAQ's. Collection of FAQ's on various Java-related topics.
• Hank Shiffman's "Making Sense of Java" FAQ. Answers very general questions about the Java language.
• Java Programming
• Elliote Rusty Harold's Java FAQ.
• Peter van der Linden's Java Programmers FAQ

Visual Cafe for Java

• Frequently Asked Questions
• Symantec's FAQ's. Collection of questions and answers commonly asked of Technical Support concerning Visual Cafe for Java.
• Knowledge Base
• Technical documents on Visual Cafe. Several support documents on how-tos and errors commonly occurred when using software.

Tutorials and Documentation

• General/Comprehensive
• The Java API

JDK 1.2	JDK 1.1
Index of fields and methods. All Packages  Class Library  Language Specification   Guide to new features 1.2	Index of all fields and methods.  All packages.  Class Hierarchy.  Downloading the API to your local machine.  Guide to new features in JDK 1.1

• Sun's Java Tutorial. Online version of The Java Tutorial by Mary Campione and Kathy Walrath, published by Addison-Wesley.
• Java Tutorial Java Tutorial Continued Addison-Wesley Pub Co
• Tutorial de Java (Spanish). Tutorial escrito en espanol por Agustin Froufe.
• Specialized Topics
• Concurrent Programming in Java. Draft of upcoming text by Doug Lea for Addison Wesley.
• Java Performance Tips. From James Driscoll.

Downloading the Java Developer's Kit and Java-Enabled Browsers.

• Browsers that Support Java
• Netscape Navigator/Communicator (Mozilla). Java support on UNIX,  Win 95/NT.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer. Supports Java on Win95/NT and Windows 98.
• HotJava from Sun. Hot Java Browser 3.0
• IBM WebExplorer. For OS/2.

Applet and Class Library Collections

• General Collections
• Gamelan, the mega applet collection.
• JARS -- Java Applet Rating Service. Collection of applets judged "Top X%" (for various X).
• Digital Cats' Collection. Available in English or Japanese.
• The Java Boutique. From Jason Gurney and MecklerMedia.
• Graphics
• JavaChart, another free chart/graph package. From Visual Engineering.
• Jim Buzbee's Hershey Font class.
• Games

General Collection.
 Favorites of the Gamelan staff.
Cool Applets and Games. From Mark Boynes.

Resources at Sun

• Sun's main Java homepage. Available in HTML version or Java version.
• Sun's Java FAQ's. Collection of Frequently Asked Questions on various Java-related topics.
• Sun's top-level documentation page.
• Sun's 1.2 Java Tutorial.
• Index of Sun's Java-related products and API's.
• A collection of downloadable Java-related resources at Sun..
• JDBC Info and API.
• Java Workshop. Sun's Java development environment written in Java.
• Schedule of Sun's Java training courses.
• The JavaOne Conferences.

Java Development Environments

• Symantec Cafe and Visual Cafe (Windows95/NT, MacOS).
• Borland Visual J Builder (Windows 95/NT). Formerly "Latte".
• Microsoft Visual J++ (Windows 95/NT).
• Metrowerks' Code Warrior with Java (MacOS).
• Sun's Java Workshop (Windows95/NT, Solaris).
• Kawa (Windows 95/NT). Free 6-month key to educational users.
• Xelfi. Written entirely in Java.
• Java IDE references from The Mining Company. From John Zukowski's Java resource page.

Free Tools

• JGL, the Java Generic Library. Data structures and algorithms for Java: stacks, queues, sorting, searching, sets, etc. Licensed by Microsoft and Borland, but can be downloaded and used for free.
• Viewing the output of the Java Profiler (java -prof ...).
• ProfileViewer.
• Georgia Tech's "Sub Arctic" UI Toolkit for Java. By Scott Hudson and Ian Smith.
• SpecJava. A free GUI builder that generates Tcl/Tk or Java code.
• The Mocha Java decompiler. Generates readable source code from class files. From H.P. van Vliet.

Other Java Resource Pages

• Team Java. Or jump directly to their Java Links.
• UK's Java Centre.
• Java Repository.
• JavaWorld Magazine's online version. Also see Chuck McManis' Java Resource page, which includes all of the source code from his Java in Depth column in JavaWorld.
• Digital Cats' Java Resource Center. Available in English or Japanese.

Java Security

• Sun's Java Security FAQ.
• Security Flaws found by Princeton (Dean, Felten, Wallach).
• PostScript paper analyzing Java security and summarizing several security flaws (most of which are now fixed).
• Summary report of Princeton flaws. Future flaws will be listed here.
• Security Flaws found by David Hopwood.
• David Hopwood's package/Classloader-spoofing bug. Lets applets run arbitrary native code if the cracker can get a file somewhere (anywhere) on the client system in a location the malicious applet knows about.

The comp.lang.java.security Usenet newsgroup

Paper and Information on Garbage Collection

• Collection of GC-related papers from the University of Texas.

• GC Articles by Hans-J Boehm at Xero
• Example showing that in some cases explicit allocation/deallocation (malloc/free) can be computationally more expensive than garbage collection. Note that he is not claiming that GC is faster in practice, only refuting the claim that it must be slower.
• Great Circle: A commercial collector for C/C++.

General WWW Resources

• High-Level WWW Resources
• Search Services
• HTML Programming
• Web-Related Graphics
• HTML Editors
• HTML Validators
• CGI Programming and Server-side Customizations
• Browsers

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