Version 1.0 Alpha3
HotJava(tm) Documentation
Welcome to the HotJava Documentation Home Page.
This page contains links to the on-line documentation available with
this release.
You can also search the documentation.
If you need help using HotJava,
see the HotJava User's Guide.
- Changes Since the
Last Release
- A listing of many of the bugs fixed and features added since
the alpha2 release.
An Interactive Guide to Applets
- Writing and Using HotJava Applets
- An interactive guide that shows you how to build and use applets.
Overviews
- HotJava White Paper
- An overview of the HotJava browser. A version in
Postscript is available.
- The Java Language: A
White Paper
- An overview of the Java language. A version in
Postscript is available.
-
HotJava Applet Compatibility
- How to make sure that your applets
work in future releases of HotJava.
- HotJava Security Features
- A brief explanation of how HotJava deals with the security
issue.
Tools
- Man Pages
- This release contains tools, e.g., the Java compiler (javac) and the Java
interpreter (java). For this release the man pages are
all hypertext documents.
Language Reference Material
- The Java Language Specification
- The specification of the Java language. The HotJava browser is
written in Java. A version in
PostScript is available.
- The Java Class API
- Hyperlinked documentation for the class library.
- Implementing Native Methods
- A "cookbook" that shows you how to implement native methods. Native
methods are methods that are declared in an Java class but implemented in
C.
- The Java Virtual Machine Specification
- This specification describes the Java virtual machine, its
instruction set and the format of class files. The
PostScript File Index is a list of the
Java Virtual Machine Specification's PostScript files that you can view and
print.
- Glossary of Terms
Draft Documentation
- The
Java/HotJava Programmer's Guide
- Look here from time to time to find draft versions
of the programmer documentation that will be in the next release.
This documentation includes information on writing
stand-alone Java applications as well as HotJava modules --
applets, protocol handlers, and content handlers.
Information on URLs and HTML
This section contains links to documentation that users new to the
World Wide Web may find interesting and useful.
- A
Beginner's Guide to URLs
- Documentation on URLs (Uniform Resource Locators),
which are the addresses you use to find documents.
This documentation is provided by the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
- A
Beginner's Guide to HTML
- Documentation on HTML,
which is the markup language for Web documents.
This documentation is provided by the NCSA.
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