Related Links

This section is a list of miscellaneous links related to each chapter. For libraries required to run code from the book, see the Code Libraries section.

Chapter 1 - Java Language and Core API

Links related to core API features discussed in Chapter 1.

• Sun's Tutorial on Object-Oriented Programming
• New Features in Java 5.0
• The Durian Fruit on Wikipedia
• Durian Palace - A Tribute to the King of Fruit
• Java Generics Tutorial
• Programming with Assertions
• Moore's Law Page at IBM, and Link to Moore's Original Paper
• JavaWorld Article on Garbage Collection of Interned Strings

Chapter 2 - String Utilities

Links related to String processing, regular expressions, random text, arrays, binary strings, and message formatting.

• Regular Expressions Reference
• Ostermiller Utilities - Comma-separated Values Processing
• W3C URI/URL Specification
• W3C HTML Specification
• W3C HTTP Specification
• U.S. Census Name Data
• Wikipedia: Compiler
• The Base16, Base32, and Base64 Data Encodings (RFC 3548)
• Apache Commons-Lang
• Secondstring - Approximate String-Matching Utilities

Chapter 3 - Processing XML and HTML

Links related to processing XML/HTML documents and other types of structured text.

• W3C XML Specification
• W3C Document Object Model (DOM) Reference
• The Official SAX Reference
• Oasis Open - XML-based Standards Consortium
• Universal Business Language (UBL) 1.0 Reference
• XML Standards Registry
• W3C XML Schema Specification
• W3C XPath Specification
• XSLT Recipes for Interacting with XML Data
• Unicode and UTF-8
• Wikipedia: Sun
• Java Screen Scraping Utilities

Chapter 4 - Crawling the Semantic Web

Links related to RDF, N3, and other topics concerning the Semantic Web.

• Semantic Web Page at the W3C
• RDF Primer
• Dublin Core
• HTML Metadata
• Paper on Industrial Strength Ontology Management
• OpenCyc Ontology
• OWL Web Ontology Language
• Suggested Upper Merged Ontology (SUMO)
• RDF Data Query Language (RDQL)
• SPARQL
• Lojban
• RDF Editors and Tools
• RDF Site Summary
• List of Aggregators
• Cool URIs Don't Change
• purl.org (Permanent URLs)
• The Jorne Project
• Syndic8: Links to RSS Feeds

Chapter 5 - Scientific and Mathematical Applications

Links related to scientific and mathematical programming in Java.

• Jakarkta Commons Functor - A Java Functor API
• Wordnet
• Wordnet in RDFS and OWL
• Mango - A Functor API for Java
• JGA Filtered Iteration Tutorial
• JScience
• The NIST Reference on Constants, Units, and Uncertainty
• The Speed of Light in a Vaccuum
• Joone - Neural Network API for Java
• JGAP - Java Genetic Algorithms Package
• Joonegap - Evolving Neural Nets Using Joone and JGAP
• The GA Playground
• Java API for Genetic Algorithms
• Wikipedia: Graph Theory

Chapter 6 - Graphics and Data Visualization

Links related to graphics and data visualization.

• XML User Interface Language (XUL)
• Sulu, a XUL Rendering Engine Written in Java
• CookSwing, Java Swing GUIs from XML documents
• Listing of XML UI Toolkits in Java
• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Page at W3C
• Apache FOP - Formatting Objects for PDF
• Open Source Java Charting and Reporting Tools

Chapter 7 - Multimedia and Synchronization

Links related to multimedia and synchronization.

• Java Sound API (Sun)
• List of Java Music Projects
• Java Digital Signal Processing Editor (J-DSP)
• Java Speech API Programmer's Guide
• Concurrency Utilities in Java 5

Chapter 8 - Fun, Integration and Project Ideas

Links related to projects and miscellaneous topics from Chapter 8.

• The Cell Matrix
• JXTA - Peer to Peer Framework
• grid.org - Grid Computing for Large-Scale, Non-Profit Research Projects
• Globus Alliance - a Community of Organizations and Individuals Developing Grid Computing Technologies
• List of Open Source Profiling Tools
• Jasmin JVM Assembler
• The Java Virtual Machine Specification
• Languages for the JVM
• CGLIB - A library for generating Java classes