The World Wide Web provides a wealth of very useful information -- the challenge is to find it! Many of you are in the Information Technology curriculum, so may naturally gravitate toward that skill. To help out, I've provided, below, some of the sites I find useful.

Course materials -- basic

Object-Oriented Software Design & Construction with Java -- Additional, online resources related to the textbook for this course.

Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach -- Supplemental textbook for this course.

Course materials -- optional

Sun Microsystems The Java™ Tutorial

Bruce Eckel's Thinking in Java™, Second Edition -- very good reference, with a perspective different than that provided by the course textbook.

World Wide Web

Java™ programming resources

Java API Specification:
http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/docs/api/index.html
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC):
http://java.sun.com/products/jdbc/
Java Beans:
http://java.sun.com/products/javabeans/
Java Multimedia Framework (JMF):
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/index.html
JMF API Specification:
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1/apidocs/

jGuru

Textbook information: http://vig.prenhall.com/acadbook/0,2581,013011264X,00.html

mSQL driver:
msql-jdbc-2-0b5.jar
mSQL:
http://www.hughes.com.au/
MySQL:
http://www.mysql.com/
Java Tutorial:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

Software engineering

Software Engineering Institute -- A Federally-Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) run by Carnegie-Mellon University

Object Management Group -- the source for information about the Unified Modeling Language (UML)

R. S. Pressman & Associates, Inc. -- the web site of the author of our course textbook

CS 5704 Software Engineering -- Virginia Tech course web site

Quality

Testing and Java™ Technology -- a nice, short online paper

Performance

Tuning Java I/O Performance -- a discussion on an important topic; don't be discouraged if you don't understand the entire topic at the beginning of the course.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Hokie Portal

Computer Science Department

Northern Virginia Center

Computer Science at the Northern Virginia Center

Professional societies

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society