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How do I download the tutorial?

See About This Draft to download the tutorial.

Note: If you download the tutorial, feel free to make it available locally at your site. Please do not publicly mirror it to the Web! Click here to find out why.

Can I mirror the tutorial?

There's information about this in our FAQ. The short answer is that you can make the tutorial available locally at your site, but please don't mirror it to the Web.

What version of the JDK does the tutorial reflect?

Except where otherwise noted, this tutorial reflects the API distributed in the 1.1 Java Developers Kit (JDK).

Who are the tutorial babies?

Cosmo and Sophia.

The tutorial seems really big. What's in there?

Here are some interesting tutorial stats:

13 trails (getStarted, java, applets, essential, ui, networking, post1.0, together, intl, native, native1.1, javabeans, security1.1)
46 lessons (4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 3, 1, 4, 2, 2, 4, 2)
87 applets
8386 links
617 .html files
403 .java files
349 images
1906 total number of files and directories
Approximately 10 Megabytes of information all together.

What about the book and the CD-ROM?

We have several pages about the book including information about the CD-ROM, a list of errata, and an FAQ.

What's all this trail nonsense?

For information about the structure and organization of this tutorial please refer to How to Use the Tutorial.

What do other readers think of the tutorial?

Here are a few review comments from some of our readers.

How did you get here?

Read a complete change history of the tutorial.

Who are Kathy and Mary?

Here are their bios from the back of the book:

Mary Campione, a technical writer on the JavaSoft team at Sun Microsystems, specializes in writing programmer's documentation for emerging software technologies. Among her other books, she is the co-author of PostScript by Example.

Kathy Walrath is a technical writer on the JavaSoft team at Sun Microsystems, specializing in how-to guides for programmers.Before joining Sun as one of the first writers on the Java project, she wrote extensively about Unix, Mach, and NextStep.

On March 4, 1997, the The Java Developer Connection interviewed Kathy and Mary about their work on the tutorial. Read the transcript of that interview. Note: You may be required to register and/or log in to view the transcript. But hey. It's free!

Also, you can read interviews with Mary and Kathy at Amazon.com.

How do I reach the authors?

Before contacting us, read This Is a Work in Progress!

I have more questions!

Try reading our new FAQ.