The tutorial given in ITS Guide 58: Getting started with Java provides basic information on developing programs in the Java programming language. This Guide introduces some other topics on Java. In particular, it discusses:

• the creation of Java programs that have graphical user interfaces (GUIs);
• the handling of collections of data using the List, Set and Map interfaces of Java's Collections API;
• the production of Java applets, code that gets executed when a person visits a WWW page.

This Guide refers to the WWW pages documenting the Core APIs: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api. These WWW pages can also be downloaded to filespace on your own computer. This Guide uses the notation javaapi:java/lang/String.html to refer to the WWW page http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/String.html.