Sun
Microsystems Java Links |
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Sun
Developer Network |
http://www.java.sun.com |
This
site is the home of Java. All the latest downloads and news
is available here, by the makers of Java. |
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Java
Tutorial |
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial |
Javasoft
have created an excellent online tutorial, which is also available
for downloading. This site is an excellent starting point for
wannabe Java developers. |
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J2EE Application Servers |
There are many J2EE servers
available, some are free to use and deploy, three offerings
are listed here. |
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JBoss |
http://www.jboss.org |
JBoss has been around for many
years, it is used
by many large and small organisations. |
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Apache Geronimo |
http://geronimo.apache.org |
A recent addition to the free
J2EE servers. A few large IT companies offer support for this
one. |
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GlassFish |
http://glassfish.dev.java.net |
Sun Microsystems are behind this latest offering. |
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Java
Development Tools And IDE's |
There
are many Java IDE's, many are free to download and use. Listed
here are three that are worth knowing about. |
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Eclipse |
http://www.eclipse.org/ |
An extremely popular IDE that can be used to
develop and debug Java applications. Many third parites supply
plugins that extend the functionality of the IDE. |
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Sun Java Studio Creator |
http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/index.jsp |
A very nice Java IDE, very easy to start programming
Java, due to its drag and drop approach to Java programming. |
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NetBeans |
http://www.netbeans.org/ |
Netbeans has been around for many years, no list
of Java IDE's would be complete without mentioning this one. |
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Download
And News Sites |
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Jars |
http://www.jars.com |
Jars
is a developer's site, with excellent Java coverage. The vast
majority of third party Java products in existence are listed
here, and eventually reviewed. Also of interest are technical
articles and code samples. |
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IBM's
alphaworks |
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com |
Free (impressive) downloads of beans and source code to amazing
projects. |
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Apache |
http://www.apache.org |
A
fantastic set of projects are in progress within this community.
Includes Fop which
can be used to generate PDF documents from an xml document. |
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Javalobby |
http://www.javalobby.com |
This
site is a forum, where the latest news, announcements and views
are published. An excellent set of Java related links are also
present. |
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The Server Side |
http://www.theserverside.com |
A
J2EE community site. Articles, reviews and tutorials can be
fond on this site. Another excellent source for EJB information. |