Useful web sites

This page contains links to a number of Java-related web sites that you may find useful

The main Sun Microsystems web site for Java is www.javasoft.com, but you will also find Java related material at another similar Sun site, www.java.sun.com

JDK Downloads

If you want to download the JDK (Java Development Kit), currently at version 1.3, then you can get either the Windows, Linux or Solaris versions. Previous versions of the JDK are also still available.

Documentation

There are many documents available on the Javasoft site. You will find the main index at http://www.javasoft.com/docs/index.html
Included in these documents are the Java Tutorial and the the reference materials for the Javadoc document generator:

The HotJava browser

You can download the HotJava browser from this site: http://www.javasoft.com/products/hotjava

Unified Modeling Language

You can get further information about the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the design notation used in the book, from the UML Resource Centre

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