Resources

Java Resources
   • JDK 5.0
   • JDK 5.0 Documentation
   • J2SE 5.0 API Specification
   • Remote Method Invocation (RMI)

IDE/Utilities
   • Eclipse - great Java IDE with cvs support and all kinds of plug-in, originally an IBM project
   • Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP) project - must have for open source web development
   • Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) project - another must have for GUI development, supports WYSIWYG (swing/awt)
   • BlueJ - handy for reinforcing OOP methodology and debugging
   • Apache Ant - very powerful make-like tool for Java
   • Apache Tomcat 5.x - servlet and jsp container with webserver

Jini Resources
   • Jini 2.1 - our current framework for Service-Oriented programming
   • Jini Extensible Remote Invocation (JINI ERI) - 2nd generation of RMI, supports dynamic proxy
   • JavaSpaces - package with Jini, derived from tuple spaces… similar to IBM’s TSpaces
   • Webster (Rio Project) - nice class server which appends multiple directories into one logical directory
   • Inca X Service Browser - Jini service browser

UML 2.0 Tools
   • Enterprise Architect - very very nice UML modeling tool, we switched to this one
   • Poseidon - good UML 2.0 editor, still a bit slow

Tutorials
   • Javadoc tutorial - Sun’s javadoc documentation
   • Borland’s UML tutorial - short and informative
   • UML 2.0 Specification - huge but answers all the questions
   • Jan Newmarch’s Jini tutorial - best Jini tutorial, good book too
   • Make room for JavaSpaces - multi-part JavaSpaces tutorial
   • RMI tutorial - step by step tutorial
   • Reflection tutorial - reflection is unique to Java, very powerful
   • Reflection tutorial 2 - another tutorial, more code examples
   • A Laboratory for teaching Object-Oriented Thinking - excellent way to reduce coupling and increase cohesion in OOP

Michael Angelo Alger

Resources