Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Campbell Ritchie wrote:Welcome to the Ranch
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The book HFJ is now quite old, but they are planning a new edition. Sun no longer exist, so you will have to look elsewhere for your downloads. I haven't downloaded an API file for a long time, but this is where you will find the most recent API. Go here to download the JDK: go for the “ready for use JDK 15” link. Make sure you update your system/user PATH with the path to the new Java® installation at its beginning.
If you use Windows, tell us what you did and I might have to update our FAQ.
Wait for the next edition of HFJ. Anybody else?Steve Yee wrote:. . . any suggestion on equally reliable and 101-reader-friendly books?
That's a pleasureSteve Yee wrote:. . . Thank you . . .
Campbell Ritchie wrote:
That's a pleasureSteve Yee wrote:. . . Thank you . . .
Did you get your installation to work?
Some people, when well-known sources tell them that fire will burn them, don't put their hands in the fire.
Some people, being skeptical, will put their hands in the fire, get burned, and learn not to put their hands in the fire.
And some people, believing that they know better than well-known sources, will claim it's a lie, put their hands in the fire, and continue to scream it's a lie even as their hands burn down to charred stumps.
Tim Holloway wrote:The primary API documentation is JavaDocs. JavaDocs can be automatically produced by running the javadoc utility program against Java source code with specially-formatted comments. IDEs such as Eclipse can even run the javadoc on your own project source code.
The standard output from javadoc is a series of HTML pages suitable for hosting on a webserver. When Oracle releases a new version of Java, they generate JavaDocs and publish them on their own website.
For example: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/index.html?java/sql/Date.html
The concept is actually older that Java. For example, When I developed for the Commodore Amiga back in the min-1980s, they had a similar system for C code called AutoDoc and their paper manuals were generated from there and then sent to their publisher (Addision-Wesley). I created a system of my own using scripts for C++ in the early 1990s. It output MS-Word Rich Text Format.
Non-Java systems these days often document themselves via a program called Doxygen. It lifts some of its features from JavaDoc.
And, incidentally, while most of the published JavaDocs you see are pretty sparing, you can, at your option add all sorts of secondary information, including HTML tables, graphics, and long rambling treatises. To be re-generated at will if you change the sources.
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