Study Topics
General
http://Java.sun.com/docs/codeconv/Html/CodeConvTOC.doc.html
http://suned.sun.com/USA/certification/javamain.html
Security Links
Gibson Research Corp which has a utility you can Access called ShieldsUp, which will let you check to see if you have any drives shares when you are on the internet. It also has some links to other port probing sites. It was a real eye opener, when you run it. The site also offers some information on the 911 virus, as well as a link to a site which has a free firewall for individual use.
http://www.grc.com/
Encryption and Security Practical Cryptosystems and their Strength
http://www.tcm.hut.fi/Opinnot/Tik-110.501/1995/practical-crypto.html
JDBC Objectives
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-05-1999/jw-05-cooltools.html
http://www.cloudscape.com for a free evaluation version of OODBMS to run Rick Lowe's stored procedure demonstration.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/Database/dukesbakery/
JDBC Code Templates -Code snippets that show you the proper syntax for JDBC calls. You need a passWord to see it. However, it is free.
GUI Design / Swing Objectives
Sun's Java Look and Feel Design Guide Lines
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2000/jw-0721-hmvc_p.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2000/jw-0414-action_p.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1998/jw-04-howto_p.html
http://java.sun.com/prodUCts/jlf/dg/index.htm
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/index.html
Swing by Robinson and Vorobiev
Java 3D API free download
http://www.anfyteam.com/dev/
RMI
Running And Debugging An RMI Application Locally
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip56.html#RMI
http://www.javaskyline.com/learnrmi.html (Who are trying to implement the assignment using RMI, we can take a look at the examples.)
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/rmi/RMI.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/faq.html
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/guide/rmi/getstart.doc.html
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/guide/rmi/Factory.html
http://www.javaskyline.com/learnrmi.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1998/jw-12-enterprise_p.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1999/jw-04-enterprise_p.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-1999/jw-05-networked_p.html
Java Enterprise in a Nutshell by Flannagan, Farley, Crawford and Magnusson
Multi-threads and Synchronization
Concurrency: State Models & Java Programs
http://www-dse.doc.ic.ac.uk/concurrency
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/developer/library/multithreading.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-07-2000/jw-0714-locks_p.html
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-1999/jw-04-toolbox_p.html
http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/
Design Patterns
James W. Cooper's "Java Design Patterns, A Tutorial"
http://www.patterndepot.com/put/8/JavaPatterns.htm
Bruce Eckel has a book in preliminary form about design patterns in Java...
http://204.212.137.22/TIPatterns/
Servlets and jsp
http://jakarta.apache.org/
Tomcat
XML
http://xml101.com
http://java.sun.com/xml/docs/tutorial/index.html
http://webreference.com/xml/column1/ (a nice quick introduction with code samples, slightly biased towards client-side XML and XSL)
Java Examples in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition Ch19
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jenut2/chapter/ch19.html
Networking
Data Conversion and File I/O
Beans Objectives
Additional Topics
Collections: List, Set, Map
Portability: Data and Character representation
Images
Internationalization
Applets vs Applications
JTable - AbstractTableModel
Refactoring
Networking - Sockets
Security
Protocol - HTML Packages/Extentions
CORBA, IIOP