We invite you to read the tutorial at its permanent home:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/By reading the tutorial on java.sun.com, you'll be guaranteed of looking at the latest version. However, sometimes you might want to read the tutorial without being connected to the Web. Or you might find that your connection to java.sun.com is too slow. Or you might want to get one package that contains all of the tutorial's examples. In these cases, it makes sense to download part or all of the tutorial.
You have four choices when downloading the tutorial:
.class files for all the tutorial examples.
While the example download is a subset of the online tutorial,
it's still fairly big.
The JFC/Swing lesson is the most popular separately downloadable archive. We're providing the Swing archive in response to reader requests. Although we can't spend much time supporting it, we welcome constructive feedback for improving the process of downloading individual lessons and trails.
Note: If you download any part of the tutorial, feel free to make it available locally at your site. Please do not publicly mirror it to the Web!
The following table provides links to all of the tutorial-related archives.
Our FAQ has a special section of questions and their answers about downloading the tutorial, including these two important ones: