The Java Tutorials are practical guides for programmers who want
to use the Java programming language to create applications. They
include hundreds of complete, working examples, and dozens of
lessons. Groups of related lessons are organized into "trails".
The Java Tutorials primarily describe features in Java SE 7.
For best results, download JDK 7.
The Java Tutorials are continuously updated to keep up with changes to
the Java Platform and to incorporate feedback from our readers.
This release of the tutorials coincides with the release of JDK 7.
You can find detailed information about the JDK 7 release in
Java SE 7 Features and Enhancements.
The following trails and lessons have been updated for the JDK 7 release:
- The Project Coin
updates have affected several sections in the
Java Language and the
Essential Classes trails.
For a complete list, see the
history page.
- The File I/O lesson, part of
the Essential Classes trail, has
been updated to correspond to the new file I/O API.
- Several sections have been added to the
Swing tutorial, including the
JLayer component, the
Nimbus look and feel, and
information on
Translucent
and Shaped Windows.
- The Deployment trail has many updated and
new lessons, including the following –
Deploying
Without Codebase,
Embedding JNLP File in Applet Tag,
Handling Initialization Status With Event Handlers, and
Customizing the Loading Experience.
- The Fork/Join
section has been added to the
Concurrency lesson.
- The Internationalization trail has
been updated to reflect the updates as a result of the
Unicode 6.0 work.
For a list of the affected sections, see the
history page.
- The JDBC Basics lesson of the
JDBC trail has been completely reworked
and updated.
- A trail introducing Java API for XML
Processing (JAXP) 1.4 technology has been incorporated into the
Java Tutorials.
Trails Covering the Basics
These trails are available in book form as
The Java
Tutorial, Fourth Edition. To buy this book,
refer to the box to the right.
- Getting Started
— An introduction to Java technology and lessons on
installing Java development software and using it to create a
simple program.
- Learning the Java Language
— Lessons describing the essential concepts and features
of the Java Programming Language.
- Essential Java Classes
— Lessons on exceptions, basic input/output,
concurrency, regular expressions, and the platform
environment.
- Collections —
Lessons on using and extending the Java Collections Framework.
- Swing — An introduction
to the Swing GUI toolkit, with an overview of features and a
visual catalog of components. See below for a more
comprehensive tutorial on Swing.
- Deployment —
How to package applications and applets using JAR files, and
deploy them using Java Web Start and Java Plug-in.
- Preparation
for Java Programming Language Certification
— List of available training and tutorial resources.
Creating Graphical User Interfaces
Specialized Trails and Lessons
These trails and lessons are only available as web pages.
- Custom Networking
— An introduction to the Java platform's powerful
networking features.
- The Extension Mechanism
— How to make custom APIs available to all applications
running on the Java platform.
- Full-Screen
Exclusive Mode API — How to write applications
that more fully utilize the user's graphics hardware.
- Generics —
An enhancement to the type system that supports operations on
objects of various types while providing compile-time type
safety. Note that this lesson is for advanced users. The Java Language trail contains a Generics lesson that is
suitable for beginners.
- Internationalization —
An introduction to designing software so that it can be easily
be adapted (localized) to various languages and regions.
- JavaBeans —
The Java platform's component technology.
- JDBC Database Access —
Introduces an API for connectivity between the Java
applications and a wide range of databases and a data sources.
- JMX— Java Management
Extensions provides a standard way of managing resources
such as applications, devices, and services.
- JNDI— Java Naming and
Directory Interface enables accessing the Naming and Directory
Service such as DNS and LDAP.
- JAXP — Introduces
the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4 technology.
- RMI — The Remote Method
Invocation API allows an object to invoke methods of
an object running on another Java Virtual Machine.
- Reflection — An API
that represents ("reflects") the classes, interfaces, and
objects in the current Java Virtual Machine.
- Security — Java
platform features that help protect applications from
malicious software.
- Sound — An API for
playing sound data from applications.
- 2D Graphics — How to
display and print 2D graphics in applications.
- Sockets Direct Protocol — How to
enable the Sockets Direct Protocol to take advantage of
InfiniBand.
