TECFA's Java Page

Warning: This page is only sporadically maintained (whenever it is needed or I feel like - last real update was YEARS ago [DKS 10/2004] )

Java @ TECFA

Java Teaching at Tecfa

• Currently: none !!!
• IN FRENCH: You can look at the slides used in a class in 1991
• Examples created for this course (some are probably broken now): http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/java/staf2x/ex/.

Java Projects at Tecfa

Java Environments/Compilers at Tecfa

• Initalisation d'un JDK: Voir les scripts dans /local/env/javaXXX, par exemple pour JDK 1.1.7: taper 'source /local/env/java117.csh, pour JDK 1.4 'source /local/env/java14.csh, etc.
• Classes JAVA: Dans /local/java/classes (aucune est dans un CLASSPATH système)

Documentation

Language and JDK/APIs:

• Sytnaxe commentée du langage Java (par Jacques Guyot/CUI)
• nothing in English ?

• JDK 1.1 documentation (local jdk 1.1.7 copy at Tecfa)
• Core API 1.1.7 (local copy)
• Swing 1.1 Doc (local copy, Swing is included in Java 1.2).
• Swing Examples (local copy)
• Java 1.1 Diagrams (PS Format)

• Jdk1.2 documentation (local)
• Jdk1.2 API (local)
• JdK 1.3.1 documentation (local)
• JdK 1.3.1 API (local)

• TomCat Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 API and examples (LOCAL copy)
• Swing 1.1 Doc (local copy, Swing is included in Java 1.2)
• See the XML page for XML/DOM API's

• INDEX: Java Platform documentation at Sun (on-line manuals + downloads)

Specifications

• The Java Language Specification -- (original at Sun)

Java Classes (installed at TECFA)

Note: For some classes, there is no doc or no link into the www tree. Also most of these directories are PASSWORD protected (sorry but you find these at the original sites). There is no point that search engines give you TECFA instead of the original.

For MySQL/mSQL

• The MM MySQL Driver
• The Imaginary JDBC Driver for MiniSQL Note: This needs InfoBus Classes - (imaginary.com)

• Cocoon Docs - Cocoon samples -
• Xalan Docs - (Apache XSL processor) Xalan Samples -
• Xerces Docs (Apache XML parser) API - Xerces samples - Xerces samples documentation -
• Fop Docs - (Apache FOP processor) Fop Samples -
• SAX (SAX XML Driver)
• Saxon docs and Saxon samples
• Aelfred

• JNDIJava Naming and Directory Interface documentation and examples
• OLD JSDK API 2.0 Servlet API included in the Java Servlet Developer Kit
• TomCat Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 API and examples (LOCAL copy)
• JSDT API Java Shared Data Tool Kit (password protected)
• InfoBus (from Sun, enables dynamic exchange of data between JavaBeansTM component architecture)
• Java3d (local)
• VRML97 (works with Java3d)
• Shout3D docs (password protected)
• iBus
• iBus 2_0_0

FAQs

• THE Java FAQ (Linden's)
• JAVA FAQ Archives (index of FAQs)
• Java & Internet Glossary
• Cafe au Lait Java FAQs, News, and Resources (Rusty's). Keeps you in touch !
• The JFC Swing FAQ, also at The JFC Swing FAQ (was The Swing FAQ)
• The Java Developer (some Q/A) and Source Code for Dr. Dobbs Journal Q/A
• JGuru FAQs Many different FAQs on various Java questions
• Note: other FAQs below in specialized sections ...

General Tutorials

• INDEX: JavaGuru Horizon!A good index for tutorials !
• INDEX: Java: Programming in Java: Learning at Gamelan.
• INDEX: Java Corner (du CUI, une très bonne ressource)
• INDEX: Sun's Java Dev Connection (Training and Tutorials)
• Sun's Java TUTORIAL (recommended, maybe OUTDATED local copy of 3/99, password protected)
  Check sometimes SUN's Download Page for the Java Tutorials
  Local copy of the examples http://tecfa.unige.ch/guides/java/tut-examples/
• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel (a large book, also available in print). The single goal of [Thinking in Java] is to give a strong grounding in the fundamentals of the language," says Eckel. Recommended !
• JavaTM Programming Language Basics, Part 1 Sun's (Pawlan) Tuorial
• E.J. Friedman-Hill's Java Course
• Spécifications du langage JAVA (CNUSC / ISIM - Agata CALI, Cyril CHEVALIER, Jean-Denis RIERA)
• Java Database Programming (Sun Online Training)

Swing/AWT Tutorials

• Creating a GUI with Swing (Section of the Java Tutorial) - local copy.
• Sun's Java AWT TUTORIAL (recommandé, localcopy, password protected)
• Fundamentals of JFC/Swing: Part I (at Sun)
• Fundamentals of JFC/Swing: Part II (at Sun)
• MVC meets Swing by Todd Sunsted/JavaWorld, Explore the underpinnings of the JFC's Swing components and learn about Model/View/Controller.
• A Swing Architecture Overview by Amy Fowler / Sun gives the inside stroy on JFC Component Design
• Sun's Swing Connection articles (index)
• The Swing Component Gallery (with links into Sun's standard Java Tutorial)
• A Practical Introduction to Swing by David McNab
• The Java Foundation Classes a Vijay Mukhi Tutorial (using small progressive examples)
• Java Plug-In Html Specification (tells you how to embed Swing 2 applets in HTML code for various browsers !

Specialized Swing Tutorials

• JTree: JTree of Marty Hall's Quick Tutorial for AWT Programmers
• JTree: Understanding the TreeModel a Sun Swing connection article by Ric Armstrong, Tom Santos, and Steve Wilson (unprintable, but I made A4/ ps file)
• XML and JTree: XML tutorials for programmers (good DOMTree class, print the HTML in landscape, even IBM doesn't have a clue how to make a correct PDF :)
• Swing examples
• Capture hierarchical structures with Swing's JTree by Tomer Meshorer on JavaWorld (old Swing code, needs some adaptation)

Specialized Tutorials

• Stefan Zeiger's Servlet Tutorial (good)
• Marty Hall's Servlets and JSP Tutorial (Good, both for servlets and JSP)
• Java Servlets for JavaScripters by Duane K.Fiels, Netscape
• IBM's Introduction to Java Server Pages, also here
• INDEX: ServerPages.com Servlet and JSP Tutorials (several)
• See also our MySQL page (JDBC) and our XML page
• Servlet Tutorial (Java Webserver 2.0). See also Sun's Java Tutorial above which has an other (different) one. Works with our old Java Web Server http://tecfa2.unige.ch:8080/ OUTDATED!
• Escape the sandbox: Access native methods from an applet
• Tips on Implementing Enterprise JavaBeans Devx article by Jeff Gallimore

Java Coding

• Draft Java Coding Standard by Doug Lea. Good !
• AmbySoft Inc. Coding Standards for Java Good !
• Sun's Java Code Conventions

On-line documentation

• Java and Internet Programming (van Hoff)
• JARS (The Java Review Service)
• Articles by Hank Shiffmann: Making Sense of Java (good opinions about the state and use of Java) * Java Groups up: JNI, RMI, Beans and More.

Books

• Judy Bishop, Java Gently, 2nd edition, (http://www.cs.up.ac.za/javagently/), Addison-Wesley (Introduction to programming and Java). Highly recommended.
  We have a local copy of the examples
• Mary Campione, Kathy Walrath, The Java Tutorial, Object-oriented programming for the Internet (second edition), Available on-line or as a book from Addison-Wesley, 1998, ISBN: 0201310074
  LOCAL COPY at TECFA: (password protected)

Specialized Topics

Server-side Java (servlets)

• Apache's Jakarta Project Including its Tomcat serveur.
• TomCat Servlet 2.2 and JSP 1.1 API and examples (LOCAL copy)
• Servlet Documentation development Kit (at Sun)
• INDEX: Java Servlet Links
• www.servletsource.comServlet Tutorials and examples. Good site.
• Purple Tech Servlet FAQ & Ressources (includes good pointers, including Tutorials)
• JGuru Servlets FAQ
• Servlet Central (an on-line Server-side Java magazine)
• Stefan Zeiger's Tutorial BEST !!
• See also: Java Networking FAQ
• Distance Learning Framework (example application)
• Part 3: Databases and Multimedia, part of WebReview's Java Servlet Tutorials

Application Frameworks

• MyCompents.com Opensource Web application server: (EJB container) + Tomcat (Servlet) + Turbine (Web Apps Framework) Jetspeed (Portal Engine) + hypersonic (Database). (not tested yet)
• JoNAS, EJB platform (an alternative to JBOSS). Embedds either Tomcat 5 or Jetty 5.
• Enhydra project, compared to standard servlet containers, this one additional functionality to build dynamic Web applications, including an XML engine (Enhydra XMLC), Database Connection Pooling, an object-to-relational mapping tool (Enhydra DODS), presentation management, session management, load-balancing / clustering (Enhydra Director), session persistence and failover, advanced logging (with log4j), easy administration and configuration, IDE integration (Enhydra Kelp), an MVC presentation framework (Barracuda), a relational ETL tool (Enhydra Octopus) ....

Java 3D

• Java 3D Page at www.javasoft.com.
• The Java3D Repository
• Java 3D needs OpenGL on Solaris, OpenGl or Direct3D on Win/NT.
• The Java3Dtm and VRML Working group The VRML loader has disapeared from Sun's sites (??), get the latest source / jar from THIS site
• Java3D Tutorial - This is a LOCAL copy of David Nadau's An Introduction to Programming AR and VR Applications in Java 3D course (password protected)
• Sun's Java3D Tutorial (PDF!) (password protected LOCAL copy)
• Portfolio. NCSA's Object Library of Java 3D (including collaborative features)
• Examples: See some of the applets in applets of Brown Univ's Exploratory
• Examples: Imaging the Imagined : Modeling with Math & a Keyboard (some 3D with Java, some Java3D, VRML, ...

Java based Expert Systems

• Jess - The Java Expert System Shell. Versatile CLIPS inspired system, ability to integrate with Java objects and more ... FREE for non-commercial and academic uses. Includes pointers to JESS-based systems: See for instance the article Agents can think, too! by Todd Sunsted (Javaworld 10 98).
• JSR-000094 JavaTM Rule Engine API, specification for a Java Rule Engin API
• Instant Tea is both an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) application and Delivery applet for producing and delivery of fuzzy knowledge bases on the Web. (Free for educators) (not tested)
• ILOG Rules Commercial (?) Product
• Rules and Web-Object Systems (Dave Carlson' Overview in Object Magazine, June 1998. See also other research papers, e.g. a Jess Rulebase Translator

Embedded languages - Java/xxx interfaces

• Pnuts, script language for Java environment
• jpython
• Skij(Scheme interpreter in Java)
• See also: JESS above (Expert System)

JNDI / LDAP

• Java Naming And Directory Interfacetm (JNDI)
• Early Access pages

Simulation Packages

• Javasim University of Edinburgh * Classes
• JavaSim University of Newcastle upon Tyne * Classes (local Classes)
• C++Sim served as a basis for the Newcastle Javasim
• Home (dead?) * Simkit * Classes
• Simjava * Classes

Networking middleware

• local iBus Documentation - Homepage

Software

Development kits and tools at Sun

• http://java.sun.com/products/ (Central Product Index)
• Sun Educational Freeware Site (Free Java Web Server, Studion, etc. for EDUCATION)

Java and Applets (Netscape)

• Creating Signed, Persistent Java Applets (Dr. Dobbs 2/99)
• Lesson: Signing Code and Granting It Permissions (Sun Tutorial) (local copy)
• Java Developer Central (Netscape)
• Optimizing Java Downloads
• Object Signing Tools * Java Capabilities API (signing and stuff) and

Java versions and Browsers

• Make Your Browser Swing! (DEAD ??) See Java Plug-In Html Specification instaed
• Swing and the Web article (DEAD link)

Various

• Java Plugin .. tired of your standard WWW browser's VM ??
• JavaWorld's Developer Tools Guide, see e.g. the IDE section
• Emacs-Based Java IDE
• See also what IBM is doing: http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com

Code & applications

Major portals

• Mathtools.net. Very complete portal for math tools (not just Java)
• RoboCode In Robocode, you'll program a robotic battletank in Javatm for a fight to the finish. The game is designed to help you learn Java
• The EOE Foundation A web-community sharing 2,600 Java applets for educators
• TOM's Java Shack has many good examples
• Java Class Warehouse. Repository for high-quality reusable Java classes
• The Java Repository
• JavaSharware.com
• Gamelan (large archive for everything)
• Java Boutique at Internet.com
• JavaWorld's Developer Tools Guide

Installed Applications at Tecfa

• Several are installed at Tecfa ... and doc is missing :) See also our XML stuff
• Note: To run servlets we use Apache/Tomca at Tecfa. We also have an old Sun Java WebServer and a Apache/Jserv

Links

Most useful Java Pages (English)

• Cafe au Lait Java FAQs, News, and Resources (Rusty's). Keeps you in touch !
• http://www.javasoft.com/ SUN's Java portal. See in particular: Products & APIs, Developer connection and Docs + Training
• EOE A global community for web-based learning tools in Java.
• Java Oasis (developper oriented repository). GOOD, start from here
• Gamelan. The oldest among the big ones, many applets, but also info for developpers
• The JavaWorld magazine's Java Resources
• JavaLobby Good Java News Site
• Digital Expresso (Summaries of News and mailinglists)
• Swiss Java Users Group (in German)
• JavaWorld's Java Book Catalog
• The Java Phone Book (applets with source, tutorials, etc.)

Most useful Java Pages (Français)

• Pause JAVA
• Bertrand's Java Page
• JavaCorner au CUI (including examples, language concepts, ect.)