Relevant Links
This is a page of relevant links — the tools, specifications, and vendor documentation referenced throughout the articles on this site.
Much of this list dates from the late 2000s, when many of the older articles here were written. Where a resource has moved to a new home, the link below points at the current one; where it is simply gone, the name is kept without a link so the original reference still makes sense in context.
Development Tools
Diagnostic Tools
- Jasper — no longer available
- Kimera (Cornell) — no longer available
- Jad — no longer available
- Wily Introscope — now Broadcom DX Application Performance Management
- IBM Heap Analyzer — superseded by Eclipse Memory Analyzer (MAT)
- VisualGC — bundled with VisualVM
- IBM GC tool — superseded by IBM Garbage Collection and Memory Visualizer
Java Debuggers
J2EE / Jakarta EE
- About JAAS (not J2EE, but comes up here most often)
- J2EE 1.4 Specification
- Java EE 5 Specification
- Jakarta EE Specifications — where the platform lives today
- IBM Developer: Java
- Jakarta EE API documentation
Jakarta EE Container Vendors
- Oracle WebLogic documentation
- IBM WebSphere Application Server documentation
- WildFly (formerly JBoss AS)
Java
JVM Vendors
- Oracle Java
- IBM Semeru Runtimes
- OpenJDK
- GCJ — GNU Java Compiler — retired from GCC in 2016
- Oracle JRockit — discontinued; merged into HotSpot
Databases
Software Libraries & Frameworks
Web Services
- Web service (Wikipedia)
- JAX-RPC — superseded by JAX-WS
- JAX-WS (Wikipedia)
Specifications
- Java Language Specification
- Java Virtual Machine Specification
- POSIX Specification
- XA Protocol (Distributed Transaction Processing)
Performance
Operating Systems
Linux
- Fedora Project
- Fedora Documentation
- Red Hat
- kernel.org
- Kernel Trap — no longer online
OpenSolaris
- OpenSolaris — discontinued; succeeded by illumos and OpenIndiana