Java and Database Connectivity

Resources

Java(tm) Home Page: http://java.sun.com/

Java home page at Sun.

news:comp.lang.java.databases

Newsgroup for JDBC related issues - recommended

news:comp.lang.java.programmer

Newsgroup for general Java releated issues - a bit noisy but often useful.

Documentation

Java Documentation (primary site): http://www.javasoft.com/docs/index.html

This is the source.... (but if you're doing it properly you need to download a local copy).

Download The Java Tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/information/download.html

This is where to download it from.

Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition : A Desktop Quick Reference for Java Programmers: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut2/

An enormously useful reference book, but...

Java Examples in a Nutshell : A Companion Volume to Java in a Nutshell: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jenut/

... if you're learning Java, the examples book is actually far more useful because it gives masses of example code, neatly laid out and annotated, to work through. Strongly recommended.

Java Programmers FAQ: http://www.afu.com/intro.html

Tools

Free/Open Source tools

Java-Linux: http://www.blackdown.org/

Home page for the team responsible for porting Java to Linux.

TYA -- Open Source Java JIT compiler: http://www.dragon1.net/software/tya/

'Just In Time' compilers can substantially improve the performance of Java programs at run time. TYA is a '100% unofficial' JIT-compiler designed as an add-on to Randy Chapman's port of JDK 1.0.2 for Linux

(x86). Later I have added some changes in TYA code for working together with the newer 1.1.x ports by Steve

Welcome to Java WebIDE!: http://www.chamisplace.com/prog/javaide/

Weird but interesting. A complete Java Integrated Development Environment implemented at server-side and delivered as a Web page...

RMI-JDBC - JDBC to remote hosts: http://dyade.inrialpes.fr/mediation/download/

Freeware JDBC middleware layer from INRIA.

Commercial tools

Simplicity for Java Homepage: http://www.datarepresentations.com/

The most interesting commercial Java IDE I've yet seen and the only one I would actually pay money for. 100% pure Java; free evaluation download.

Welcome to NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.com/index.html

Another interesting commercial Java IDE written in 100% pure Java. Free evaluation download.

IBM VisualAge for Java: Download: http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/download.htm

IBM's Java IDE

Visual Café 3.0: http://www.symantec.com/region/uk/product/vcafe/

Probably the best of the mainstream commercial IDEs

Metamata Home Page: http://www.metamata.com/

Resources

Gamelan: Earthweb's Java Directory: http://www.gamelan.com/

An onlline searchable resource of both freeware and commercial Java components. Useful, but these days overloaded and slow.

www.jrefinery.com: http://www.jrefinery.com/

Algorithmics in Java: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/contents.htm

Servlets

Servlet Engines

Locomotive: http://www.locomotive.org/

Enhydra: http://www.enhydra.org/

Bull EJB: home page: http://www.bullsoft.com/ejb/

Caucho Technology Products: http://www.caucho.com/products/resin/index.html

The Java Apache Project: http://java.apache.org/

The best way to serve servlets with Apache.

Servlet Central: The Server-side Java Magazine: http://www.servletcentral.com/

An online newsletter aiming to provide quality information for servlet developers. On the whole, so far, seems good.

View Source: Java Servlets in Netscape Enterprise Server: http://developer.netscape.com/viewsource/kadel_servlet.html

Live Software, Inc.: http://www.livesoftware.com/

Vendors of a Servlet server 'JRun', and, possibly more importantly for us, a ColdFusion interpreter as a Java Servlet

Purple Servlet FAQ by Alex Chaffee: http://www.purpletech.com/java/servlet-faq/

Java Apache Project: How do I create an image with a servlet, for example, a graph out of a list of values?: http://java.apache.org/faq/fom-serve/cache/204.html

WebCream - Java to HTML converter providing automatic conversion of Swing and AWT to HTML: http://creamtec.com:30422/webcream/

Introduction to Java Course - Course Selections: http://www.ibm.com/java/education/intro/courseoptions.htm

Netscape JDK 1.1 Update Support: http://developer.netscape.com/software/jdk/download.html

How to make your older Netscape browser work with Java 1.1. Less important now that Netscape 4.5 does.

Java server performance (InfoWorld): http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayTC.pl?/980914analysis.htm#contents

Performance comparison of servlet servers.

IBM Aglets Workbench - Home Page: http://www.ibm.co.jp/trl/aglets/

A proposed standard (with free supporting software) for mobile intelligent agents. Fascinating; worth study.

Java Software: http://www-uk.hpl.hp.com/people/ak/java/

The Kaffe Homepage: http://www.kaffe.org/

GJ: Generic Java: http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/gj/

EJBoss: http://www.ejboss.org/

Ace's Hardware: http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/read.php?article_id=153

Java Network Programming FAQ: http://www.davidreilly.com/java/java_network_programming/