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".
For the most accurate and up-to-date tutorials,
please access the latest version from Oracle's official website for the
Java SE Tutorials (Last Updated 10/18/2010), which can be found at:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial.
The Java SE Tutorials primarily describe features in Java SE 6.
For best results, download JDK 6.
What's New
As part of the Oracle Author Podcast Series, a podcast on the
Java Tutorials has just been released. You can hear the 10-minute podcast
through the Oracle
Author Podcasts website.
Enjoy quizzes? Take a minute to answer this quiz about Java applets.
The Java Tutorials are continuously updated to keep up with changes to
the Java Platform and to incorporate feedback from our readers.
Included in the most recent release:
- For several months the Java SE Tutorials were not available as a
download. We are happy to report that the very popular
bundle is back and available through the link under the "Tutorial
Resources" box to the right.
- Do the Java Tutorials seem overwhelming to you? We have
added a new Learning Paths page.
Please let
us know what you think!
- The new Fork/Join page,
part of the Concurrency
lesson, describes how you can use the Fork/Join framework to take
advantage of multiple processors.
This feature is available now in the JDK 7 release available on
java.net.
- The JDBC Basics lesson has been completely
revamped, including updated sample code that you can download,
compile, and run – the code has been configured for Java DB and MySQL.
See Getting Started
for more information.
- Finally, a small, but notable, change is that the standalone JNDI tutorial,
previously available on java.sun.com, has been moved to the Java SE
documentation archive on
download.oracle.com
and many broken links in the tutorial have been fixed.
The front page of the JNDI tutorial
has been modified accordingly, and redirects are in place ensuring a
seamless transition.
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
This trail is available in book form as
The JFC Swing
Tutorial. To buy this book, refer to the box to the right.
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.
