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Q

I am following your articles on Java published on the javaboutique site with interest. Will the articles be available in downloadable form (such as adobe acrobat) or is there a book available? I'm trying to learn Java from ground level so a way to refer back to things would be helpful.

Also in order to write Java do I need a compiler program, and if so where can I get one from?

A

I don't have any plans to release the articles in PDF or any other format other than HTML.

JavaBoutique has no such plans either, although you can save and print the pages directly from the site. - Ed.

There is definitely no book on the horizon as I am already doing a book on Perl/CGI and ASP at the moment and could not possibly take on another one :(

Take a look at our new Book Review section to see summaries and ratings of the newest Java Tutorial books. - Ed.

As for what you need to write and compile Java, you need to get a copy of the Java Developers Kit from www.javasoft.com. You probably want to get a copy of JDK 1.02 and JDK 1.12 so you can write applets in either JDK.

To compile a java applet, you use the program named javac which comes with the JDK.

Selena Sol contributes to the JavaBoutique's Introduction to Java. Selena curently works for Barclays Capital in London, one of the leading global investment banks in Europe and has worked as a software developer for the National Center for Human Genome research, Microline Software, Neuron Data, and Electric Eye in Singapore. Selena is perhaps best-known for creating the Public Domain Web Script Archive (Extropia) and writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java).
Email: selena@extropia.com

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