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• FIJI ForthIsh Java Interpreter?
• SoftWoehr Java Class Libraries for JTOpen?

Java Links

• Compilers and Java Virtual Machines
• Cross-Platform Objects
• Development Tools and API's
• Editors
• EJB - Enterprise Java Beans and Application Servers
• Hardware for Java
• IDE's - Interactive Development Environments
• Java Web Browsers
• Language Variants
• Publications
• Sites and Resources

Compilers and Java Virtual Machines

• Chockino is an alternative Java VM.
• IBM Java
• Javasoft is the source of all Java, including
  • Javasoft Developer's Page
• Jikes is IBM's open source Java compiler.
• Research into Java VM's and bytecode.
  • http://orp.sourceforge.net/
  • http://www.usenix.org/events/jvm01/
  • http://www.usenix.org/events/jvm02/
  • http://research.sun.com/jtech/
  • http://www.japhar.org/
  • http://www.sablevm.org/
  • http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/jalapeno/
  • http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/
  • http://www.research.ibm.com/jalapeno/
  • http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/
  • http://www.javagrande.org/
  • http://www.kaffe.org
  • http://wonka.acunia.com/
  • http://www.go-mono.com

Cross-Platform Objects

• ILU is Xerox's Inter-Language Unification system, a CORBA ORB free with source.
• Iona Orbix has an Object Request Broker suite including compiling CORBA IDL to Java.
• Object Oriented Concepts has a full suite of object-oriented development tools free for non-commerical use, including a request broker and an idl-to-html compiler which works analogously to javadoc.
• Weblogic is a commercial CORBA implementation.
  • Weblogic also has commercial JDBC drivers .

Development Tools and API's

• Ant is becoming the standard open source build tool for Java (analagous to 'make' from the C language)
  • There are many open source projects aimed at extending Ant
    • Antelope creates and runs Ant scripts
      
    • Ant-Contrib adds new tasks to Ant
    • AntXtras adds new tasks to Ant
• ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework.
• CUP is an LALR parser for Java.
• eteks has many interesting Java tools, including a GPL'ed remote AWT for non-GUI machines.
• GNU Regexp for Java is the essential regular expression metaphor ported to Java.
• JAD Java Decompiler.
• Jasmin Java assembler.
• Java Code Engineering and Reverse Engineering has Online resources for heavy metal Java.
  • It's a subpage of the Internet Programming Links .
• JavaToys has pointers to all sorts of Java resources.
• JSyn audio synthesis API for Java.
• JTOpen is Java API's for the IBM AS/400 .
  • SoftWoehr Java Class Libraries for JTOpen are utilitiy applications on top of JTOpen.
• Kiwi Toolkit is a Free Software Java class library much like JFC.
• Remote AWT for Java is IBM's remote implementation of the Java AWT that lets the AWT portion of an application running on one Java VM display on a remote Java VM. This makes it easier to debug Java AWT applications that one is installing on a GUI-less mainframe.
• Ken Shirriff's Java Language Pages have I18N stuff including a PCFFont class to draw X fonts in Java, among other tools.
• tech.tools.* has free tech tools for Java, including Jas the Java Assembler. 2000-09-22 ... seems to have vanished.
• Oberon Software has native OS/2 Rexx, Comm, HLLAPI support for Java, commercial.

Editors

• JDE is Java Development for Emacs, a loadable Java mode for GNU Emacs with syntax coloring and other advanced editor features.
• JEdit is a syntax-coloring editor, GPL'ed Free Software, written in Java.

EJB - Enterprise Java Beans and Application Servers

• EJBHome is the home of an Enterprise Java Beans development kit.
• Enhydra is an open-source Java/XML application server.
• Evidian is the home of JOnAS open-source EJB server.
  • See also Jonathan a distributed environment.
• IBM San Francisco Project is IBM's & partners' suite for Java-based business applications.
• jBoss is an open-source EJB environment.
• KBeans aims at supporting the development of semantically rich data structures in Java.

Hardware for Java

• JOP is the Java-Optimized Processor Project.
• TINI is a $50 single board from Dallas Semiconductor that does Java and TCP for embedded applications.
  • Dallas Semiconductor TINI Developer's Home Page
  • Unofficial TINI Information is a user perspective on TINI.

IDE's - Interactive Development Environments

• AnyJ is a cross-platform Java IDE. Freely downloadable for Linux.
• Borland JBuilder is a nice IDE for Java.
• Eclipse threatens to eclipse other IDEs!
  
• IBM Visual Age for Java is a great development environment, with a free downloadable limited version.
  • Now, in 2004, VAJ seems to have gone away in favor of Eclipse.
    
• NetBeans is my favorite!
  • I'm co-author of Netbeans: The Definitive Guide which you can read online on Safari.
    

Java Web Browsers

• HotJava Browser .
• JoZilla Open Source Code Java Browser.

Language Variants

• FIJI ForthIsh Java Interpreter is my open-source Forth-like Java interpreter in Java.
• HACKJAVA is a somewhat offbeat Russian site for Java. Caveat emptor. 2000-09-22 ... seems to have vanished.
• IAVA is an interpreter that implements a subset of the JavaTM programming language.
• KIEV is about language attempts to unite Prolog and Java, produces JVM byte code.
• Languages for the Java VM has links to and descriptions of various languages available other than the Java language to run on top of the Java virtual machine.
• NetRexx is a Rexx-like language which compiles to Java source code.
• Paul Tarau's Home Page is about JProlog, Prolog written in Java.
• Pnuts is a script language based on Java written in Java.
• Toba is a Java-to-C translator for standalone applications.
• Waba is a subset of Java used for smaller devices such as the PalmPilot.

Publications

• Java Developer's Journal is an online magazine associated with the print publication.
• JavaGeeks is a site where Java experts let it all hang out.
• JavaRSS is a comprehensive Java news and links site.
• OnJava.com is O'Reilly Associates site about enterprise Java.
  

Sites and Resources

• Chris Paradine's Java Page ... Chris was, until recent retirement, official answerman on IBM's nntp server for Java support .
• Doug Lea is heavy subjects like concurrent programming in Java.
• IBM Centre for Java Technology Development is IBM's hotbed of Java at Hursley, England .
  • IBM JDK intermediate updates are posted to ftp.hursley.ibm.com
  • news:nntp.hursley.ibm.com
    • IBM Java Forums is the new newsgroups server for ibm.software newsgroups.
      
• IBM Redbook on VM/ESA Java
• Java Idioms discusses design patterns in Java.
• Java Lobby is a way for all Java developers to keep in touch about their common interests while working together at preserving the purity of the Java model.
• jGuru is forums full of Java gurus eager to answer your questions.
• JOS is a "public software" Java Operating System which was under development but currently looks pretty dead.
  
• JVSearch is a search engine for Java employment.
• Living in the Java Platform is Kevin Raulerson's personal vision of an all-java development environment, with downloadable tools.
• Linux Java is one of the many mirrors of the Linux Java Development Kit.
  • See also JaxRCFB Linux Page for possibly more info.
• Linux Java FAQ helps you get your bearings on Java for Linux.
• Mind Products is noted Forther Roedy Green's JDBC information page, lots of good insight!
• OnJava.Com is a great O'Reilly Assoc. site about enterprise Java.
  
• NewMonics Technologies has great theoretical papers on hard Java realtime and garbage collection. Dr. Kevin Nilsen is quite the scientist.
• S/390 Java has info about running Java on IBM mainframes.
• Wingsoft Corporation "All Wingsoft products are 100% Java-based," is their claim.
• Zappie's Java and Java/400 Home is a great beginner page, Java and and AS/400.

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