417-F01-java-resources

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Last updated Wednesday August 29 2001

JAVA INTRODUCTION:

Getting Started
Learning the Java Language
Maybe skip section "More Features of the Java Language" except for subsection "Managing Inheritance".
Essential Java Classes
Maybe skip sections "Setting Programming Attributes" and "Accessing System Resources". Definitely read up on String and StringBuffer; Thread and its related classes; Throwable and Exception and their friends; Reader, Writer, InputStream, and OutputStream classes from java.io and their descendants.
Custom Networking

Java Programming Language Basics, Part 1, by Monica Pawlan. Lessons 1, 2, 8. Download book from here.
Java Programming Language Basics, Part 2, by Monica Pawlan. Lesson 1 ("Socket Communication"). Download book from here.

JAVA DETAILS

JDK 1.3.x Documentation
The Java Language Specification, by James Gosling, Bill Joy, Guy Steele. [2000 Edition]

JAVA THREADS

Programming Java threads in the real world by By Allen Holub. (Use the mirror for better style, and speed).

Part One: A Java programmer's guide to threading architectures [mirror]	Part Six : The Observer pattern and mysteries of the AWTEventMulticaster [mirror]
Part Two: The perils of race conditions, deadlock, and other threading problems [mirror]	Part Seven :Singletons, critical sections, and reader/writer locks [mirror]
Part Three: Roll-your-own mutexes and centralized lock management [mirror]	Part Eight : Threads in an object-oriented world, thread pools, implementing socket 'accept' loops [mirror]
Part Four : Condition variables and counting semaphores [mirror]	Part Nine : More threads in an object-oriented world: Synchronous dispatchers, active objects, detangling console I/O [mirror]
Part Five : Has Sun abandoned 'run anywhere'? [mirror]

JAVA NETWORKS

JAVA DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT (gives tools for debugging and editing programs)