Web Links for Java (Updated for 2014)

Oracle/JCP Java Pages

• Oracle's TechNetwork/Java site (formerly Sun's Java Development site)
• Getting Java!
• Java Tutorials
• Java Tutorials - Basics
• Java Tutorials - JFC/Swing
• JavaSE 7 API
• JavaSE 7 Documentation
• Java SE Platform
• Java Community Process - Standardization
• Open JDK
• Versions of Java SE
• New in Java 5! (2004) major language changes
• New in Java 6! (2007) no changes to core language
• New in Java 7! (2011) minor language changes
• Original Sun White Paper: The Java Language Environment (1996)
• The Java Language Specification, for Java 5 and 7
• Oracle's Dev forum - Java section

Java Book Links

• ProQuest Safari Online [within UCC only] (go to Java Development from the Featured Categories)
• Java For Everyone: Late Objects, 2nd Edition Companion Site
• Big Java 4th Edition Companion Site
• Java Software Solutions - 7th ed. (2012) Publisher's Page
• Java Software Solutions - 4th ed. - free resources
• Introduction to Java Programming, 8th Ed., Liang
• Horstmann: Java Concepts for Java 5 and 6, 5th Edition
• Deitel Java Resource Centre

Notes

• Fred Swartz's Java Notes lots of examples here.
• Fred Swartz's Java Basics
• Barnes and Ko"lling's note on Java 5 features
• Java Practices

Java Communities

• Java.net - Java technology collaboration (Oracle/O'Reilly site)
• Java World
• JGuru, formerly Java Boutique
• IBM's Developer Java site Excellent Website
• Java Ranch
• about.com's Java page

Java Video Tutorials

• "JavaVideoTutes" - uses DrJava
• DrJava Setup and Use

Java IDEs and Tools

Free IDEs

• Eclipse
• NetBeans

Programmer's Editors

• jEdit
• Programmer's Notepad
• Notepad++
• Kate/KDevelop (Linux)

Teaching IDEs

• DrJava
• BlueJ
• jGRASP

Commercial IDEs

• JCreator
• JBuilder

Tools

• JDK tools
• JAR Tutorial (archive tool)
• Javadoc (documentation tool)
• apache ant (build tool)
• JUnit (testing tool)
• Subversion (revision control tool)
• Findbugs (debugging tool)
• GNU Classpath

Some Java Technologies

• Web Start
• Server-side Java -- Servlets
• Rich client Java -- JavaFX
• Java Mobile Edition
• Android Platform

Reference

• Unicode
• IEEE 754: Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic

Java Fun Stuff

• Greenfoot -- Java Learning Environment
• Karel J. Robot, i.e. Karel in Robot in Java
• Bergin's Karel J. Robot Simulator
• Another Karel J. Robot Simulator
• Alice 3 Karel J. Robot Simulator
• Greenfoot Karel J. Robot Simulator
• JPie
• GridWorld Case Study (AP Central CollegeBoard)
• Java for Lego Mindstorms
• JavaFX Games