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The Java™ Tutorials
The Java Tutorials have been written for JDK 8. Examples and practices described in this page don't take advantage of improvements introduced in later releases and might use technology no longer available.
See Dev.java for updated tutorials taking advantage of the latest releases.
See Java Language Changes for a summary of updated language features in Java SE 9 and subsequent releases.
See JDK Release Notes for information about new features, enhancements, and removed or deprecated options for all JDK releases.
A list of all content pages in theThe Java™ Tutorials
Oracle Legal Notices
Trail: Getting Started
The Java Technology Phenomenon
How Will Java Technology Change My Life?
The "Hello World!" Application
"Hello World!" for the NetBeans IDE
"Hello World!" for Microsoft Windows
"Hello World!" for Solaris OS, Linux, and Mac OS X
A Closer Look at the "Hello World!" Application
Questions and Exercises: Getting Started
Common Problems (and Their Solutions)
Trail: Learning the Java Language
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Questions and Exercises: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Questions and Exercises: Variables
Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators
Equality, Relational, and Conditional Operators
Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators
Questions and Exercises: Operators
Expressions, Statements, and Blocks
Questions and Exercises: Expressions, Statements, and Blocks
The if-then and if-then-else Statements
The while and do-while Statements
Summary of Control Flow Statements
Questions and Exercises: Control Flow Statements
Providing Constructors for Your Classes
Passing Information to a Method or a Constructor
Returning a Value from a Method
Controlling Access to Members of a Class
Summary of Creating and Using Classes and Objects
Questions and Exercises: Classes
Questions and Exercises: Objects
When to Use Nested Classes, Local Classes, Anonymous Classes, and Lambda Expressions
Questions and Exercises: Nested Classes
Questions and Exercises: Enum Types
Type Annotations and Pluggable Type Systems
Questions and Exercises: Annotations
Questions and Exercises: Interfaces
Multiple Inheritance of State, Implementation, and Type
Writing Final Classes and Methods
Questions and Exercises: Inheritance
Formatting Numeric Print Output
Questions and Exercises: Numbers
Converting Between Numbers and Strings
Manipulating Characters in a String
Comparing Strings and Portions of Strings
Summary of Characters and Strings
Questions and Exercises: Characters and Strings
Generic Methods and Bounded Type Parameters
Generics, Inheritance, and Subtypes
Wildcard Capture and Helper Methods
Effects of Type Erasure and Bridge Methods
Questions and Exercises: Generics
Managing Source and Class Files
Summary of Creating and Using Packages
Questions and Exercises: Creating and Using Packages
Trail: Essential Java Classes
The Catch or Specify Requirement
Catching and Handling Exceptions
The try-with-resources Statement
Specifying the Exceptions Thrown by a Method
Unchecked Exceptions — The Controversy
What Is a Path? (And Other File System Facts)
Managing Metadata (File and File Store Attributes)
Reading, Writing, and Creating Files
Creating and Reading Directories
Watching a Directory for Changes
Questions and Exercises: Basic I/O
Defining and Starting a Thread
Intrinsic Locks and Synchronization
A Strategy for Defining Immutable Objects
High Level Concurrency Objects
Questions and Exercises: Concurrency
Miscellaneous Methods in System
Questions and Exercises: The Platform Environment
Methods of the PatternSyntaxException Class
Questions and Exercises: Regular Expressions
Trail: Deployment
Applet's Execution Environment
Finding and Loading Data Files
Defining and Using Applet Parameters
Displaying Short Status Strings
Displaying Documents in the Browser
Invoking JavaScript Code From an Applet
Invoking Applet Methods From JavaScript Code
Handling Initialization Status With Event Handlers
Manipulating DOM of Applet's Web Page
Writing Diagnostics to Standard Output and Error Streams
Communicating With Other Applets
Working With a Server-Side Application
What Applets Can and Cannot Do
Solving Common Applet Problems
Questions and Exercises: Applets
Developing a Java Web Start Application
Deploying a Java Web Start Application
Running a Java Web Start Application
Common Java Web Start Problems
Questions and Exercises: Java Web Start
Doing More With Java Rich Internet Applications
Setting Trusted Arguments and Secure Properties
Accessing the Client Using JNLP API
Security in Rich Internet Applications
Guidelines for Securing Rich Internet Applications
Questions and Exercises: Doing More With Rich Internet Applications
Embedding JNLP File in Applet Tag
Deploying a Java Web Start Application
Checking the Client JRE Software Version
Avoiding Unnecessary Update Checks
Ensuring the Presence of the JRE Software
Questions and Exercises: Deployment In-Depth
Deploying Self-Contained Applications
Pre-Requisites for Packaging Self-Contained Applications
Converting an Existing Application
Using a Common Build File for All Platforms
Questions and Exercises: Self-Contained Applications
Packaging Programs in JAR Files
Viewing the Contents of a JAR File
Extracting the Contents of a JAR File
Working with Manifest Files: The Basics
Understanding the Default Manifest
Setting an Application's Entry Point
Adding Classes to the JAR File's Classpath
Setting Package Version Information
Sealing Packages within a JAR File
Enhancing Security with Manifest Attributes
Signing and Verifying JAR Files
Understanding Signing and Verification
Trail: Creating a GUI With Swing
Compiling and Running Swing Programs
Learning Swing with the NetBeans IDE
Setting up the CelsiusConverter Project
Creating the CelsiusConverter GUI
Adjusting the CelsiusConverter GUI
Questions and Exercises: Learning Swing with the NetBeans IDE
How to Use Buttons, Check Boxes, and Radio Buttons
How to Use the ButtonGroup Component
How to Use Editor Panes and Text Panes
How to Use Formatted Text Fields
How to Make Frames (Main Windows)
How to Use HTML in Swing Components
Solving Common Component Problems
Questions and Exercises: Using Swing Components
Worker Threads and SwingWorker
Tasks that Have Interim Results
Bound Properties and Status Methods
Questions and Exercises: Concurrency in Swing
How to Integrate with the Desktop Class
How to Create Translucent and Shaped Windows
How to Decorate Components with the JLayer Class
How to Support Assistive Technologies
How to Use the Focus Subsystem
How to Use Modality in Dialogs
Solving Common Problems Using Other Swing Features
Laying Out Components Within a Container
A Visual Guide to Layout Managers
How to Use Various Layout Managers
Creating a Custom Layout Manager
Doing Without a Layout Manager (Absolute Positioning)
Solving Common Layout Problems
Questions and Exercises: Laying Out Components within a Container
Drag and Drop and Data Transfer
Adding Cut, Copy and Paste (CCP)
Using and Creating a DataFlavor
Putting it All Together - DnD and CCP
Solving Common Data Transfer Problems
Introduction to Event Listeners
General Information about Writing Event Listeners
Listeners Supported by Swing Components
Implementing Listeners for Commonly Handled Events
How to Write an Action Listener
How to Write a Change Listener
How to Write a Component Listener
How to Write a Container Listener
How to Write a Document Listener
How to Write an Internal Frame Listener
How to Write a List Data Listener
How to Write a List Selection Listener
How to Write a Mouse-Motion Listener
How to Write a Mouse-Wheel Listener
How to Write a Property Change Listener
How to Write a Table Model Listener
How to Write a Tree Expansion Listener
How to Write a Tree Model Listener
How to Write a Tree Selection Listener
How to Write a Tree-Will-Expand Listener
How to Write an Undoable Edit Listener
Solving Common Event-Handling Problems
Questions and Exercises: Writing Event Listeners
Creating the Demo Application (Step 1)
Creating the Demo Application (Step 2)
Creating the Demo Application (Step 3)
A Closer Look at the Paint Mechanism
Solving Common Painting Problems
Questions and Exercises: Performing Custom Painting
Trail: Collections
Questions and Exercises: Interfaces
Questions and Exercises: Aggregate Operations
Questions and Exercises: Implementations
Custom Collection Implementations
Trail: Date Time
Questions and Exercises: Date-Time API
Trail: Internationalization
Internationalizing the Sample Program
Language Tag Filtering and Lookup
Isolating Locale-Specific Data
About the ResourceBundle Class
Preparing to Use a ResourceBundle
Backing a ResourceBundle with Properties Files
Customizing Resource Bundle Loading
Dealing with Compound Messages
Performing Locale-Independent Comparisons
Improving Collation Performance
Supplementary Characters as Surrogates
Converting Latin Digits to Other Unicode Digits
Working with Bidirectional Text with the JTextComponent Class
Internationalization of Network Resources
Service Providers for Internationalization
Installing a Custom Resource Bundle as an Extension
Trail: 2D Graphics
Overview of the Java 2D API Concepts
Stroking and Filling Graphics Primitives
Displaying Antialiased Text by Using Rendering Hints
Using Text Attributes to Style Text
Drawing Multiple Lines of Text
Working with Bidirectional Text
Creating and Drawing to an Image
Printing a Multiple Page Document
Working with Print Services and Attributes
Printing the Contents of a User Interface
Printing Support in Swing Components
Transforming Shapes, Text, and Images
Constructing Complex Shapes from Geometry Primitives
Trail: Sound
Overview of the Sampled Package
Accessing Audio System Resources
Processing Audio with Controls
Using Files and Format Converters
Accessing MIDI System Resources
Transmitting and Receiving MIDI Messages
Using Advanced Sequencer Features
Introduction to the Service Provider Interfaces
Providing Sampled-Audio Services
Trail: JavaBeans(TM)
Trail: JDBC Database Access
A Relational Database Overview
Processing SQL Statements with JDBC
Connecting with DataSource Objects
Retrieving and Modifying Values from Result Sets
Using Customized Type Mappings
Trail: Java Management Extensions (JMX)
Overview of the JMX Technology
Architecture of the JMX Technology
Monitoring and Management of the Java Virtual Machine
Exposing a Resource for Remote Management By JConsole
Trail: Java API for XML Processing (JAXP)
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations APIs
Finding the JAXP Sample Programs
Using the DTDHandler and EntityResolver
Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
Introducing XSL, XSLT, and XPath
Writing Out a DOM as an XML File
Generating XML from an Arbitrary Data Structure
Transforming XML Data with XSLT
Oracle's Streaming XML Parser Implementation
Relationship with the SecurityManager
Trail: RMI
An Overview of RMI Applications
Implementing a Remote Interface
Compiling and Running the Example
Compiling the Example Programs
Trail: Security Features in Java SE
Set up a Policy File to Grant the Required Permission
Quick Tour of Controlling Applications
See How to Restrict Applications
Set up the Policy File to Grant the Required Permissions
Grant the Required Permissions
API and Tools Use for Secure Code and File Exchanges
Signing Code and Granting It Permissions
Download and Try the Sample Application
Create a JAR File Containing the Class File
Export the Public Key Certificate
Observe the Restricted Application
Import the Certificate as a Trusted Certificate
Set Up a Policy File to Grant the Required Permission
Add a Policy Entry with a SignedBy Alias
Create a JAR File Containing the Contract
Export the Public Key Certificate
Steps for the Contract Receiver
Import the Certificate as a Trusted Certificate
Generating and Verifying Signatures
Generating a Digital Signature
Prepare Initial Program Structure
Generate Public and Private Keys
Save the Signature and the Public Key in Files
Prepare Initial Program Structure
Input and Convert the Encoded Public Key Bytes
Implementing Your Own Permission
Steps for the HighScore Developer (Chris)
Steps for the ExampleGame Developer (Terry)
Steps for a User Running ExampleGame (Kim)
Trail: The Extension Mechanism
Understanding Extension Class Loading
Creating Extensible Applications
Setting Privileges for Extensions
Sealing Packages in Extensions
Trail: The Reflection API
Examining Class Modifiers and Types
Retrieving and Parsing Field Modifiers
Getting and Setting Field Values
Obtaining Method Type Information
Obtaining Names of Method Parameters
Retrieving and Parsing Method Modifiers
Retrieving and Parsing Constructor Modifiers
Getting and Setting Arrays and Their Components
Getting and Setting Fields with Enum Types
Trail: Custom Networking
What You May Already Know About Networking in Java
Reading from and Writing to a URLConnection
Reading from and Writing to a Socket
Writing the Server Side of a Socket
Writing a Datagram Client and Server
Broadcasting to Multiple Recipients
Programmatic Access to Network Parameters
Listing Network Interface Addresses
HTTP State Management With Cookies
CookieHandler Callback Mechanism
Trail: Bonus
Interoperating with Legacy Code
Class Literals as Runtime-Type Tokens
Converting Legacy Code to Use Generics
Full-Screen Exclusive Mode API
Double Buffering and Page Flipping
BufferStrategy and BufferCapabilities
Preparation for Java Programmer Language Certification
Trail: Java Naming and Directory Interface
Event and Service Provider Packages
Naming and Directory Operations
Add, Replace or Remove a Binding
Create and Destroy Subcontexts
Add, Replace Bindings with Attributes
Advanced Topics for LDAP Users
How LDAP Operations Map to JNDI APIs
How LDAP Error Codes Map to JNDI Exceptions
Modes of Authenticating to LDAP
LDAP Unsolicited Notifications
New features in JDK 5.0 and JDK 6
Manipulating LdapName (Distinguished Name)
Manipulating Relative Distinguished Name (RDN)
Setting Timeout for Ldap Operations
Trail: Sockets Direct Protocol
Understanding the Sockets Direct Protocol
Creating an SDP Configuration File
Trail: Java Architecture for XML Binding
Customizing Generated Classes and Java Program Elements