Java and Database Connectivity

Resources

Java home page at Sun.

Newsgroup for JDBC related issues - recommended

Newsgroup for general Java releated issues - a bit noisy but often useful.

Java Documentation (primary site): http://www.javasoft.com/docs/index.html: This is the source.... (but if you're doing it properly you need to download a local copy).
Download The Java Tutorial: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/information/download.html: This is where to download it from.
Java in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition : A Desktop Quick Reference for Java Programmers: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javanut2/: An enormously useful reference book, but...
Java Examples in a Nutshell : A Companion Volume to Java in a Nutshell: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jenut/: ... if you're learning Java, the examples book is actually far more useful because it gives masses of example code, neatly laid out and annotated, to work through. Strongly recommended.
Java Programmers FAQ: http://www.afu.com/intro.html

Java-Linux: http://www.blackdown.org/: Home page for the team responsible for porting Java to Linux.
TYA -- Open Source Java JIT compiler: http://www.dragon1.net/software/tya/: 'Just In Time' compilers can substantially improve the performance of Java programs at run time. TYA is a '100% unofficial' JIT-compiler designed as an add-on to Randy Chapman's port of JDK 1.0.2 for Linux
(x86). Later I have added some changes in TYA code for working together with the newer 1.1.x ports by Steve
Welcome to Java WebIDE!: http://www.chamisplace.com/prog/javaide/: Weird but interesting. A complete Java Integrated Development Environment implemented at server-side and delivered as a Web page...
RMI-JDBC - JDBC to remote hosts: http://dyade.inrialpes.fr/mediation/download/: Freeware JDBC middleware layer from INRIA.

Simplicity for Java Homepage: http://www.datarepresentations.com/: The most interesting commercial Java IDE I've yet seen and the only one I would actually pay money for. 100% pure Java; free evaluation download.
Welcome to NetBeans: http://www.netbeans.com/index.html: Another interesting commercial Java IDE written in 100% pure Java. Free evaluation download.
IBM VisualAge for Java: Download: http://www.software.ibm.com/ad/vajava/download.htm: IBM's Java IDE
Visual Café 3.0: http://www.symantec.com/region/uk/product/vcafe/: Probably the best of the mainstream commercial IDEs
Metamata Home Page: http://www.metamata.com/

Gamelan: Earthweb's Java Directory: http://www.gamelan.com/: An onlline searchable resource of both freeware and commercial Java components. Useful, but these days overloaded and slow.
www.jrefinery.com: http://www.jrefinery.com/
Algorithmics in Java: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~papagel/project/contents.htm

The Java Apache Project: http://java.apache.org/

The best way to serve servlets with Apache.

Servlet Central: The Server-side Java Magazine: http://www.servletcentral.com/

An online newsletter aiming to provide quality information for servlet developers. On the whole, so far, seems good.

Vendors of a Servlet server 'JRun', and, possibly more importantly for us, a ColdFusion interpreter as a Java Servlet

Java Apache Project: How do I create an image with a servlet, for example, a graph out of a list of values?: http://java.apache.org/faq/fom-serve/cache/204.html

WebCream - Java to HTML converter providing automatic conversion of Swing and AWT to HTML: http://creamtec.com:30422/webcream/

How to make your older Netscape browser work with Java 1.1. Less important now that Netscape 4.5 does.

Performance comparison of servlet servers.

IBM Aglets Workbench - Home Page: http://www.ibm.co.jp/trl/aglets/

A proposed standard (with free supporting software) for mobile intelligent agents. Fascinating; worth study.