For Java Lovers

Some nice handbooks talking about basics of Java are as follows:

http://portal.aauj.edu/portal_resources/downloads/programming/javap_programming_language_handbook.pdf
http://www.amazon.com/The-Java-Handbook-Patrick-Naughton/dp/0078821991

http://www.amazon.com/gp/search?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_lbr_books_series_browse-bin%3ANutshell+Handbooks&keywords=Java+(Computer+program+language)

http://units.handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/cits/cits1200

Please do go through them, will help you Coders a lot :)

DOJO With Eclipse : Day 1

After searching a lot to find the best tool for Dojo I ended up choosing Eclipse as the IDE, and not NetBeans ...

So here are the steps to install the environment for working with DOJO, pardon me for my BAD english, but really I have typing it really in a hurry as have to finish of my work ...

The beginners Guide for fun in DOJO:

1. Download Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers (This is Eclipse Helios btw)

2. It comes with tomcat as the container in it n the good old Apache server which we will use

Get the latest Dojo Release from the http://www.dojotoolkit.org website ... Me

using 1.6.1 at the time of coding

3. Unzip the dojo-release-1.6.1 folder and put in in the same folder where you will be writing yr HelloWorld.html.

4. For all the files with dojo, remember to use the source as : dojo-release-1.6.1/dojo/dojo.js and similarly others

How to increase Row Widths in a SWT Code

final Table table = new Table(composite, SWT.SINGLE | SWT.FULL_SELECTION | SWT.HIDE_SELECTION);

table.setLinesVisible(true);

table.setSize(555, 555);

// resize the row height using a MeasureItem listener

table.addListener(SWT.MeasureItem, new Listener() {

public void handleEvent(Event event) {

// height cannot be per row so simply set

event.height = 20;

}

});

What to go for ?? JDK or JRE

Well if net speed is not an issure, I suggest go for the lastest version of JDK from

http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

most probably its

JDK 6 Update xx

whats the difference between JDK and JRE !!

As the name says JDK is java development KIt, it bundles many softwares like (debuggers, development tools, ) along with one or more JREs. On the other hand JRE is the run time environment, its the implementation of Java Virtual Machine meant for running JAVA programs...

If all you want to do is to learn java basics at minimal level (to just run javac mycode.java and then run it) i would suggest go for JRE only...

How to set Path Variables

Most of you might me knowing but for the rest....

if we have a user variable lets say :

JAVA_HOME --> C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_19

we can add it in the "Path" System variable simple by following these steps:

1. Right click on My Computer

2. Select Properties

3. Select Advanced Tab

4. Click on Environment Variables button

Path --> C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\Credant\Shield v5.4.2\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;T:\acme\current\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;

In the above red colored is the "uservariable" and \bin can be added if we are having the .bat/.sh file in the bin folder.

Remember not setting the variable wont give the complile time error but will throw error at runtime