Java

• Download J2SE 5.0
• The Java Tutorial (It contains lots of good advanced stuff)
• Sun's Code Conventions for the Java Programming Language
• How to Write Doc Comments for the javadoc Tool

Online Material

• Sockets Programming in Java (short tutorial)
• All About Sockets (Sun's Tutorial)
• Resolving Internet Addresses using Java (provides methods that weren't part of the InetAddress class back in 1996)
• High-level Network Programming (HTTP-based Applications)
• Transporting Objects over Sockets

Source Code

• DNS:
  • Retrieve computer sympolic name: GetName.java
  • Retrieve computer IP address: GetAddress.java (revise it by using getHostAddress())
  • More source code: Resolving Internet Addresses using Java
• UDP Sockets:
  • MyServer.java
  • MyClient.java
• Multicast Sockets:
  • MyPeers.java
• TCP Sockets:
  • TimeClient.java
  • EchoClient.java
  • HiServer.java
  • HiClient.java
  • MathServer.java
  • MathClient.java
  • httpd.java

UML & UML Tools:

• UML Resource Center
• ArgoUML (open source)
• Free Trial of Rational Rose (from Rational)
• many other UML tools
• Mapping UML Associations to Java Code

Patterns:

• Patterns homepage
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable OO Software
• Design patterns matrix
• GoF Design Patterns Overview + sample implementations in C++ and Java
• UML Class Diagrams for GoF Patterns
• Sample design pattern (Security Policy)
• Design Patterns Java Companion (online book)
• Thinking in Patterns (online book but under development)

Design by Contract

• Design by Contract in Eiffel
• Programming correctness and assertions Code showing how to implement assertions in Java
• iContract a design by contract tool (preprocessor) for Java

javadoc

• How to write doc comments for javadoc

Ant (XML-based Build Tool)

• Ant
• Sample build.xml file

Testing

• Test Infected: Programmers Love to Write Tests
• JUnit: Unit Testing Framework for Java

Configuration Management Tools

• CVS (Concurrent Version System)
• Bugzilla: Defect Tracking System

Software Cost Estimation

• COCOMO 81 Calculator
• COCOMO II

Process Improvement

• Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

Software Processes (including lightweight...also known as Agile)

• Rational Unified Process (RUP)
• eXtreme Programming (XP)
• Pair Programming
• Personal Software Process (PSP)