Java Links
- Educational Websites
- Online Java Textbooks
- Java Compilers
- Java IDE's
- Eclipse
- open-source IDE that only requires JRE and not the full JDK to be installed (Eclipse comes with its own built-in Java compiler and doesn't use javac). Prof. Owen Astrachan has extended Eclipse so students can submit their projects, download from the web directly into Eclipse, and added user-interface 'stuff' to make choices for beginning students easier to find. These enhancements are
online, so careful searching will find them now, but you're on your own if you can't figure them out. Here's a tutorial
on using Eclipse. Check out the Jigloo
plugin for GID Java development. Here's a tutorial
on using Eclipse's debugger, a tutorial
on using JUnit in Eclipse, and a tutorial
on making a jar with Eclipse.
- Greenfoot
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- BlueJ
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- JCreator
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- Sun's Java Studio
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- DrJava
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simple and easy to install but not real flexible. Also provides a useful Eclipse plug-in.
- Jipe
(simple but fits on a
floppy disk)
- Netbeans
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open-source and free; here's one tutorial
to
help you get started and here's another tutorial
. Be careful, Netbeans is powerful but complicated.
- various Java
tools for Linux
- Java at Sun