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API SPECIFICATIONS VS.
API DEVELOPER DOCUMENTATION

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> A common question we get is: Why aren't the JavaTM 2 platform API
> specifications written as more complete developer documentation? Why don't
> they include full working code examples, definitions of common programming
> terms, conceptual overviews, metaphors, illustrations, descriptions of
> implementation bugs and workarounds? We have chosen to put this information in
> the books listed below, and restrict the specifications to "assertions"
> necessary for conforming implementations.
> 
> 
> 
>  * Developer documentation contained in the Java 2 SDK documentation:
>    Java 2 SDK SE Documentation - This is the documentation for a particular
>    release of the Java 2 SDK. It points to the Java 2 Platform, Standard
>    Edition API Specification mentioned above.
> 
>  
> Browsable online and downloadable (HTML).
>  * Developer guides and tutorials:
>    Java Tutorial Books - Developer documentation that covers much of the Java
>    2 Platform.
> 
>  
> Browsable online, downloadable, and available as printed books.
>  * Code Examples
>    Java Developers Almanac - Searchable online code examples
> 
>  
> Browsable online and available as printed book.
>  * 1.2 API developer reference documentation:
>    The Java Class Libraries, Second Edition - These books include more
>    detailed, developer-targeted descriptions, with conceptual overviews,
>    definitions of terminology, workarounds for bugs, and working code examples
>    for nearly all classes, interfaces and members in 15 basic packages in Java
>    2 SDK, Standard Edition, v 1.2.
> 
>  
> Available in print only. Code samples are downloadable.
>  * Other books in the Java Series "from the source", include Developers
>    Almanac, Java Programming Language, Java Language Specification, Java FAQ,
>    Security, JDBC, JVM, 3D, Enterprise JavaBeans, the Class Libraries Poster
>    and others.
> 
> Some available online, all available in print as books.



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