Dave's Java Page

You've all heard about Java, it's is one of the hottest developments in the Web.

I was at the 3rd World-Wide Web Conference in April 95 when Java was announced, and I wrote a summary paper of java. I was also at the recent JavaOne conference, and I've done a summary of JavaOne

I teach courses on Java. You can view the slides of my talks from my on-line slides

The rest of this page is devoted to links with some descriptions of various Java sites.

For general interest, the official Java home page has lots of documentation on the The HotJava Browser: A White Paper, as well as full complete discussion of the language. There is a java news group

Java repositories

Gamelan is the leader of the applet repository market
Java Applet Repository Service
noware, a commercial Applet vendor

Dev Envs

JAVA IDE Comparison
BulletProofs JDesignerPro looks great
RogueWave's JFactory is an actual relase >1.0 product
Symantec's Cafe has garnered an early market lead
IBM will provide Java support in Visual Age
Microsoft will be writing a Java compiler called Jakarta
Peak Technologies has a java web page builder

GIS/Mapplets

The Latest Weather (Java Version 0.2)
MapQuest! Welcome!

Corba and Distributed Objects

Distributed Objects does not include Java. In fact, Distributed Object technology is all about the ability to have an object in one program space communicate with an object in a separate program space. Due to Java's distributed object nature, there is great convergence between Java and Distribute/Remote Objects occurring.
So, where to put Java/CORBA.. In a Java section or a Distributed Object section… I figure in a distributed object section, solely because there seems to be a closer tie. So, you can see my Distributed Object page