Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module J606. This topic is presented on public courses Learning to Program in Java, Java Bootcamp, Java Programming for the Web, Java Extra, Deploying Java Applications on Linux / Unix

There's a huge range of java packages available, and many containers and associated products. Once you've learnt the fundamentals of Java, you'll want to study those extras which are relevant to your application, and that's likely to be only a small proportion of the extras. This module briefly describes some of the more popular extras that are available, to help you see where you should consider further study.

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4305	Learning to program in Java - yes, we can help. Yes, we CAN teach you to program in Java. And we'll teach you with a view to the latest versions of Java too ... at the end of this article's a list of some of the things added to Java 8 (not yet the standard run time environemnt) and Java 7 and we will tell you about those as appropriate. We'll do ...	2014-09-26
3043	Gathering information - logging - with log4j. First steps. Generating information about processes as they run - who has visited a server, where orders have been received from, noting which requests have been slow - are all vital elements of debugging and monitoring processes. And this information gathering all comes under the title of "logging". Anyone who's ...	2010-11-12
2036	Java Tag Libraries / how they work / Tomcat Deployment A Java (JSP) tag library is a set of additional XML tags that you can include in your Java Server Page in order to create objects and set and get the attributes of those objects. Let's see an example. I can write the following into my HTML: <jsp:useBean id="bigmac" class="shape.Cube"/> <jsp:setProperty ...	2009-02-11
1910	Java - Generics If you're writing a Java program and you want to hold a whole series of objects of a similar type in a single variable, you can use and array ... except that you need to know HOW MANY of them there will be before you create the array. Using the java.util package, there are numerous more flexible alternatives ...	2008-11-27
1562	Java Compiler - needs all classes, compiles them all too Remember that when you compile a java source file ... a) You must have the classes it will use when it runs available to the compiler so that it can check (a bit frustrating at times if you're compiling on one machine but going to be running on another) b) If you supply only java course code for some ...	2008-03-03
1049	Java 6, Apache Tomcat 6. I greet new releases of software that we teach with a joy that the software is moving forward, but with an element of trepidation - "what's changed" I wonder. Although programming languages rarely change in that they render the old code incompatible, thre are often changes in default configuration ...	2007-01-21