Java
Sun Microsystems
supports
with development kits, reference documentation and tutorials on
the Sun Java site,
features applications on
java.com,
and hosts open source projects on
java.net.
Mac OSX Java developers can find useful information from the Apple Developer Connection and the Mac Java Community.
java-source.net, lists open source java projects. Apache supports many Java projects under Jakarta, in addition to projects such as the ubiquitous ant build system.
To package Java applications for delivery, check out Launch4J and IZPack as alternatives to InstallAnywhere.
For profiling, Profile4j provides a nice interactive GUI, although still not quite as nice as commercial apps like Yourkit.
Both commercial and open source Java Swing look-and-feel kits are listed at
Open source Swing components are provided by
L2FProd.
For Java game development, check out the Java Gaming forum and the book Killer Game Programming in Java
Open source IDE's include
.
XRadar
produces graphical metrics displays using source code analysis tools such as
PMD.
Hibernate provides an object-to-relational mappings.
See the World Wide Web Consortium for XML/XSL specifications
Game Desktop
This source code is a (perhaps overly elaborate) framework for developing games that can be wrapped either in a Swing or J2ME interface. You can see it in action on Fugu Games.
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