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This small article is aimed at web designers who are (mostly) non-programmers and who wish to use 3rd party applets rather than create their own. It sets out to define java from the non-specialist's perspective and guard against a few common misconceptions.

Multithreading and concurrency are nothing new, but one of the innovations of the Java language design was that it was the first mainstream programming language to incorporate a cross-platform threading model and formal memory model directly into the language specification. While this simplifies the development of platform-independent concurrent classes, it by no means makes writing concurrent classes trivial -- just easier.

This tutorial introduces the Hello World program to new Java programmers using the JOptionPane interface.

A guide to the use of conditionals in Java, covering if statements, else statements, else if, as well as switches.

The Java language, and the ever-growing Java platform, have revolutionized programming. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce you to the Java syntax you're most likely to encounter professionally, and to expose you to idioms that will help you avoid trouble. Follow along with Java professional Roy Miller as he guides you through the essentials Java programming, including the OOP paradigm and how it applies to Java programming; Java language syntax and use; creating objects and adding behavior, working with collections, handling errors; and tips for writing better code.

Explains operators and simple mathematical functions, which operators take priority over others, and how to implement them in code.

Do you want to add sound to your JAVA application? It's so incredibly easy!

A thread, by definition is a light weight process. They are used to increase functionality and performance by performing multiple tasks at the same time, i.e. concurrently...

Basic 'Hello World' tutorial in Java

Creating a basic game in JPanel.

Creating a basic Java game using JPanel.

Easy to follow, visual presentation of many of the concepts you need to start programming in java such as fundamentals, syntax, basic packages, GUI with AWT/Swing/2Dapi, threads and networking. Includes example source code, quizzes and exercises.

Synchronization is a process of controlling the access of shared resources by the multiple threads in such a manner that only one thread can access one resource at a time. In non synchronized multithreaded application, it is possible for one thread to modify a shared object while another thread is in the process of using or updating the object's value. Synchronization prevents such type of data corruption.

The "JDK" is the Java Development Kit. i.e., the JDK is bundle of software that you can use to develop Java based software. The "JRE" is the Java Runtime Environment. i.e., the JRE is an implementation of the Java Virtual Machine which actually executes Java programs.

jar.fyicenter.com provides you detailed information on many commonly used 3rd party JAR files. You can use the search function to find the right JAR file name by entering the missing class name. jar.fyicenter.com also provides you information on how to download JAR files.

A proxy in Java can wrap an object and expose the same interface. This proxy can be used the same way as the original object, but can contain extra functionality. This site shows an example how to make a proxy that logs all method calls of an object.

This tutorial shows how to make an object serializer tool that saves Java objects to the file system.

JUnit is a popular testing framework. This simple tutorial shows how to write a JUnit testcase.

Accessing files with Java is easy. With this easy to follow tutorial you will learn how to perform basic file operations in Java. Reading, writing, appending, and random file access are covered. Along with an introduction to file locking.

This guides shows how to read text and binary files in Java into String / byte array.