CMSC 417-0101

Java Resources

Fall 2002

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~shankar/417-Notes/java-resources.html
Last updated Tuesday September 3rd 2002

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JAVA INTRODUCTION:

• Java Tutorial (http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html)
• 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]

• Articles available at google Directory : http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Threads/Java/

JAVA NETWORKS

• Java Network Programming FAQ by David Reilly [Last Modified April 200]
• Network Programming Seminar: Slides of a Seminar. It is good for quick notes.

JAVA RMI (Remote Method Invocation)

• Fundamentals of RMI. ( A short course about RMI).
• RMI Tutorial. (Sun Java tutorial)

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

• Google Directory
• Borland, JBuilder. (Good, but needs fast computer, You can download it Free)
• AnyJ (Needs less computations than JBuilder)
• Kaffe (Comparable to Borland JBuilder, and may better)

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