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A practical guide for programmers with hundreds of complete, working examples and dozens of trails--groups of lessons on a particular subject.	Last update: September 30, 2002
Trail types: Basics \| GUIs \| Specialized \| Online only

Trails Covering the Basics:

	Your First Cup of Java Detailed instructions to help you run your first program: UNIX, Microsoft Windows, Mac
	Getting Started
	Learning the Java Language
	Essential Java Classes
	User Interfaces that Swing: A Quick Start Guide
	Writing Applets

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Trail on Constructing GUIs:

Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing

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Specialized Trails:

	Overview
	Collections
	IDL
	Internationalization
	2D Graphics
	Security in 1.2
	Sound
	JAR Files
	JavaBeans^TM
	The Extension Mechanism
	JDBC^TM Database Access
	Java Native Interface
	RMI
	Reflection

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Trails Available Online Only:
	Putting It All Together - A Comprehensive Example
	Custom Networking
	Full-Screen Exclusive Mode API
	Regular Expressions
	Drag and Drop
	Security in 1.1
	JDK^TM 1.1 -- And Beyond


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