Research/Project Work

HCI
Web Authoring
Multimedia Authoring
Sound

Colour
Practical Graphics
Creative Graphics
Fractals
Anamorphic Images

Assorted information about Java.

Web Pages

Sun's Java site, including

List of Java products, with links to downloading

Java 2 documentation, version 1.3 or version 1.2

Java Tutorial, and the Really Big Index for it

Java 2 Runtime Environment

Swing - a collection of useful classes for GUI (graphical user interface) components, and here's the Swing portion of the Java tutorial

Java 2D Web site, the Java 2D API documentation, and the Java2D tutorial

Java 3D Web site, the Java3D API documentation, and a page where you can get the Java3D tutorial from.

Java Advanced Imaging API, the Guide to the JAI API, and the JAI Tutorial

Java Look and Feel Guidelines - Online Version

Javadoc Tool Home Page (Javadoc is a tool to assist documentation of your Java programs)

Javaworld magazine has a lot of useful articles, including

Getting started with Java 2D

Antialiasing, images, and alpha compositing in Java 2D

Image processing with Java 2D - JavaWorld - September 1998

Learn how applets load network-based images asynchronously

How Java uses the producer/consumer model to handle images -- An insider's look

When static images just don't make the cut

How Do I Process Images with Java? (article by Aaron Michael Cohen)

Bruce Eckel's MindView site has huge quantities of Java resources, including free electronic books

RealJ is a development environment for Java, free for non-commercial use

Books

I own copies of some of these books, which I have indicated. If you can't get these through your local bookshop, Amazon is a good online UK source, with book reviews and information as well as reasonable prices.

Not for those new to programming but very helpful for those new to Java, it gets you thinking in the way you need to to manipulate objects in the Java world. Clear and helpful. Also this is book is available online!!

This book gives a guide to using the Java 2D API, which is a set of classes for advanced 2D graphics and imaging, encompassing line art, text, and images in a single comprehensive model.
I have a copy of this book.

An image processing book, with the examples written in Java. Not just basic graphics programming, there is more advanced material there too. In my opinion, the material is not terribly well presented and does have mistakes in it.

This book doesn't use Java 2D or the Swing classes. CD included.
I have a copy of this book.