Help for Java newbies

I still remember the night when me and the knight were working on our Java project - hamraDownloader. What night that was... One system, two heads, javadoc and i guess 3-4 java ebooks, project aim, and most of them all, time constraint of submitting it on the next day... It was all setup for the perfect night out... And it really went crazier when we were roaming with a glass of tea up and down in the whole building... Truely miss those times...

Anyways, that day one thing we realized that for newbies of our level, you will surely get the classes you need for your purpose. But those will be the abstract ones. That is you don't know how to create the instance for them. And that is where I felt that javadoc provided no help. Its a very huge documentation, but very less examples. And if you don't have a internet, your night is going to be the one like ours... memorable.

Anyways, so just as Getting Real said, scratching your own itch is an important thing. It is a pain area for new people like us and the people at the Carnegie Mellon University felt the same way.

Jadeite - http://edelstein.pebbles.cs.cmu.edu/jadeite/

Jadeite provides a human based approach to search for the classes in the Java api. So, now you can make your java project in less time and probably you will have to find another way to make your night memorable. ;)

Happy Coding... ;)

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