Java Tutorials

[thekashyap]

I needed to get links to some good Java, J2EE tutorials and was surprised that daniweb::Java didn't have a thread on that..

Of course it's easy enough having Sun provide tutorials on most things, there might be some covering specific topics in better ways.
Anyway here are the links I have found so far on java.sun.com, please post if you find some other tried and tested ones:

Core Java/Basics

• Getting Started — An introduction to Java technology and lessons on installing Java development software and using it to create a simple program.
• Learning the Java Language — Lessons describing the essential concepts and features of the Java Programming Language.
• Essential Java Classes — Lessons on exceptions, basic input/output, concurrency, regular expressions, and the platform environment.
• Collections — Lessons on using and extending the Java Collections Framework.
• Swing — An introduction to the Swing GUI toolkit, with an overview of features and a visual catalog of components. See below for a more comprehensive tutorial on Swing.
• Deployment — How to package applications and applets using JAR files, and deploy them using Java Web Start and Java Plug-in.

Specialized Trails and Lessons

• Custom Networking — An introduction to the Java platform's powerful networking features.
• The Extension Mechanism — How to make custom APIs available to all applications running on the Java platform.
• Full-Screen Exclusive Mode API — How to write applications that more fully utilize the user's graphics hardware.
• Generics — An enhancement to the type system that supports operations on objects of various types while providing compile-time type safety. Note that this lesson is for advanced users. The Java Language trail contains a Generics lesson that is suitable for beginners.
• Internationalization — An introduction to designing software so that it can be easily be adapted (localized) to various languages and regions.
• JavaBeans — The Java platform's component technology.
• JDBC Database Access — Introduces an API for connectivity between the Java applications and a wide range of databases and a data sources.
• JMX— Java Management Extensions provides a standard way of managing resources such as applications, devices, and services.
• JNDI— Java Naming and Directory Interface enables accessing the Naming and Directory Service such as DNS and LDAP.
• RMI — The Remote Method Invocation API allows allows an object to invoke methods of an object running on another Java Virtual Machine.
• Reflection — An API that represents ("reflects") the classes, interfaces, and objects in the current Java Virtual Machine.
• Security — Java platform features that help protect applications from malicious software.
• Sound — An API for playing sound data from applications.
• 2D Graphics — How to display and print 2D graphics in applications.

J2EE Tutorials: Contains the following:

• Chapter 1: Overview

Web-Servlets-JSP

• Chapter 2: Getting Started with Web Applications
• Chapter 3: Java Servlet Technology
• Chapter 4: JavaServer Pages Technology
• Chapter 5: JavaServer Pages Documents
• Chapter 6: JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library
• Chapter 7: Custom Tags in JSP Pages
• Chapter 8: Scripting in JSP Pages
• Chapter 9: JavaServer Faces Technology
• Chapter 10: Using JavaServer Faces Technology in JSP Pages
• Chapter 11: Developing with JavaServer Faces Technology
• Chapter 12: Creating Custom UI Components
• Chapter 13: Configuring JavaServer Faces Applications
• Chapter 14: Internationalizing and Localizing Web Applications

XML-Java-JAX

• Chapter 15: Building Web Services with JAX-WS
• Chapter 16: Binding between XML Schema and Java Classes
• Chapter 17: Streaming API for XML
• Chapter 18: SOAP with Attachments API for Java
• Chapter 19: Java API for XML Registries

EJB

• Chapter 20: Enterprise Beans
• Chapter 21: Getting Started with Enterprise Beans
• Chapter 22: Session Bean Examples
• Chapter 23: A Message-Driven Bean Example

Persistence API

• Chapter 24: Introduction to the Java Persistence API
• Chapter 25: Persistence in the Web Tier
• Chapter 26: Persistence in the EJB Tier
• Chapter 27: The Java Persistence Query Language

Security

• Chapter 28: Introduction to Security in Java EE
• Chapter 29: Securing Java EE Applications
• Chapter 30: Securing Web Applications

Message Service-Transactions-Other

• Chapter 31: The Java Message Service API
• Chapter 32: Java EE Examples Using the JMS API
• Chapter 33: Transactions
• Chapter 34: Resource Connections
• Chapter 35: Connector Architecture

Examples

• Chapter 36: The Coffee Break Application
• Chapter 37: The Duke's Bank Application

[Ezzaral]

Yes, it would be good to have a thread for this stickied at the top like some of the other Software Development forums.

[thekashyap]

Some more links from some other threads..
http://www.exampledepot.com/index.html
Thinking in Java 3rd Edition
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/josman/oop/oop1.htm

How is it like the moderators find this thread not up to the mark, unnecessary or simply haven't seen it !

[peter_budo]

How is it like the moderators find this thread not up to the mark, unnecessary or simply haven't seen it !

What you trying to say? You been expecting to see more comments, or your post to be added to the top list as important post in the section so everybody can see it and go there if they just looking for quick tutorials?

[thekashyap]

What you trying to say? You been expecting to see more comments, or your post to be added to the top list as important post in the section so everybody can see it and go there if they just looking for quick tutorials?

I was hoping, for others' sake that this will be made a sticky post so all can get this basic info easily; and for my sake that others will add some more links to good tutorials that I can refer to. :).

[peter_budo]

What you can do is add link to this tutorials into your signature.
However problem with this links is that due time they will change ( new version of java will bring new tutorials, website removed etc) and that would requere somebody to check on them regulary, let say every 2 months

[thekashyap]

What you can do is add link to this tutorials into your signature.
However problem with this links is that due time they will change ( new version of java will bring new tutorials, website removed etc) and that would requere somebody to check on them regulary, let say every 2 months

Sounds very logical !! May be same can be communicated to C/C++ forum moderators as well.. :)

[thekashyap]

www.freecomputerbooks.com
www.onlinecomputerbooks.com

[peter_budo]

To be fair I did not like it the first site. Yes it does have many books but many of them are out of date.
Second side link does not work

[thekashyap]

To be fair I did not like it the first site. Yes it does have many books but many of them are out of date.
Second side link does not work

Thanks for the feedback about first one. The second link doesn't work due to a typo.
Here is the updated one: www.onlinecomputerbokks.com/

[jwenting]

not only are many books out of date, I also seriously doubt the publishers like the way this guy aggregates their content without giving so much as a source reference.

[Ezzaral]

Bumping. Many posters need to read this.

And this: Code Conventions for the Java(TM) Programming Language: Contents