The Java Tutorials are practical guides for programmers who want to use the Java programming language to create applications. They include hundreds of complete, working examples, and dozens of lessons. Groups of related lessons are organized into "trails".The Java Tutorials primarily describe features in Java SE 7. For best results, download JDK 7.
What's New
The Java Tutorials are continuously updated to keep up with changes to the Java Platform and to incorporate feedback from our readers. This release of the tutorials coincides with the release of JDK 7 Update 2.
The following sections have been updated for this release:
- In the 2D and Internationalization trails, more detailed informaton about font and text layout concepts have been added. In particular, these trails have new pages about bidirectional text, including Working with Bidirectional Text with the JComponent Class.
- Using Predefined Formats has been updated to demonstrate new features added to the Currency class for JDK 7.
- The Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) tutorial (formerly part of the Java EE tutorial) has been migrated to the Java SE tutorial.
- Links to the JavaFX documentation have been added to various pages in the tutorial.
For information on the areas of the tutorial that are new and updated for the JDK 7 release, see the history page.
