The Java Programming Language

Last Updated 16 Nov 07
Copyright 2007 by Stephen Vermeulen

Notes about Java.

The SwingWiki
Junit version 4, promises to be a better testing framework
Aonix makes specialized versions of Java focusing on real-time applications
Slashdot review of: Computer Graphics Using Java 2D and 3D, by Hong Zhang and Y. Daniel Liang, ISBN: 0130351180. Sounds like a nice book, but its rather expensive.
ReportMill is a report writing tool, they also have a Swing toolkit and a layout tool kit.

3D Graphics

Java3D source code has been released
Quake2 has been ported to Java
Firefox canvas tag and javascript

PDF Files

Possible approaches to create PDF files from within a Java program:

JFreeReport
PDFBox
iText
PDFDoclet
PJX
UJAC - Useful Java Application Components
retep
gnujpdf
jPDFProcess from Qoppa Software

Graphing

JGraph Diagram component: JGraph is the most powerful, lightweight, feature-rich, and thoroughly documented open-source graph component available for Java. It is accompanied by JGraphpad, the first free diagram editor for Java that offers XML, Drag and Drop and much more! It has been updated (Oct'04) to version 5.1
Jung Jave Universal Network / Graph Framework
jxProject is a project management tool in Java

Icons

Sun has a page of suggested toolbar icons that have been designed with the Java look and feel in mind.

Sun is starting to open up the interface to the desktop from Java

Books

There are quite a number of books on Java, the ones I have bought and used are:

Articles

Could Java be faster than C++? In this the author notes that using the server JVM instead of the client JVM improves performance greatly. To run the server JVM you can either include the -server command line parameter, as in:

java -server -jar beanshell.jar

or else modify the jvm.cfg file in your Java installation. (It's a text file, so you can use Notepad or Emacs to edit it.) This is located in C:\Program Files\Java\j2reXXX\lib\i386\ on Windows, /usr/java/j2reXXX/lib/i386/ on Linux. You will see two lines:

-client KNOWN

-server KNOWN

You should change them to:

-server KNOWN

-client KNOWN

This change will cause the server VM to be run for all applications, unless they are run with the -client argument.

Could Java be on the return (Aug'04), I was not aware it had ever left
Printing in Java
IBM's developerWorks site looks at the performance issues with garbage collection and concludes that with about JDK 1.4 garbage collection related performance (and object allocation) may not be a significant concern anymore

JAVA Applets

A nice JAVA Applet tutorial
The SUN JAVA Applet Tutorial

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