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
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/
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