Title: Beyond ACCU... Java on the 'net

This month's column is collated from suggestions posted to ACCU.general. Thank you to all that helped.

The Java FAQ from comp.lang.java is on http://sunsite.unc.edu/javafaq/javafaq.html is best used as an introduction/overview. It covers topics which include What is Java?, Other resources, Java for C++, programmers, Language issues, API issues, Java platforms, Common problems, and Tools.

http://www.afu.com/javafaq.html

http://mindprod.com/gloss.html

An excellent site to consult whilst learning Java. Read it end to end after you've learnt the basics of the language.

Free membership provides access to articles and white papers.

http://developer.javasoft.com/developer/

http://jcentral.alphaworks.ibm.com/Internet/power.htm

Bruce Eckel is the author of Java and C++ books and is a regular conference speaker. http://www.BruceEckel.com

His web site contains: source code, useful links, electronic copies of books, a full version of his book "Thinking In Java" and a draft version of his "Thinking In C++" (2e). The first edition was given a good review by Chris Simons, see www.accu.org.

And debug everywhere, without the help of all those JDK porters and testers. The Java Spec report is an unofficial resource of errata, serving the Java community at large.

http://www.nodule.demon.co.uk/java/

There's a lot at Object International. http://www.oi.com

It offers: Together/J - whiteboard edition, Playground - a tool for building object models (whiteboard edition, Win 3.x, 95, NT), OO courses (either by Workshops or by CBT)

Together/J is a tool that offers: UML diagrams plus Coad Object Models, Fast robust generation of system documentation, Extensive configurability of reverse engineering and code generation.

Integrated Java and HTML development environment

http://www.silverstream.com

While monitoring comp.lang.java.programmer I noticed an online bibliography being recommended. "Lorrie LeJuene at O'Reilly maintains a list of good books for different types of Java programming. This is rather noble effort on her part, since this list contains about as many non-O'Reilly books as books from ORA. However, we all agree that these are good sources of Java programming information, and it should boil down your choices from 700+ to about 6 or 7".

http://java.oreilly.com/news/bibliography2.html

There are links to most of the popular Java books along with some examples of the Visual Age for Java development environment at:

http://www.cabrol.com/vaj/

Home page of James Gosling. He helped create Java within Sun and is the co-author of "The Java Programming Language".

http://java.sun.com/people/jag/

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