java.net is the realization of a vision of a diverse group of engineers, researchers, technologists, and evangelists at Sun Microsystems, Inc. to provide a common area for interesting conversations and innovative development projects related to Java™ technology. The community continues to grow with industry associations, software vendors, universities, and individual developers and hobbyists joining every day. As they meet, share ideas, and use the site's collaboration tools, the communities they form will uncover synergies and create new solutions that render Java technology even more valuable.

The goal of java.net is to stimulate the expansion of a diverse resource portfolio of Java[tm] technology by building a web-based community where developers, educators, researchers, business people, users, consultants, methodologists, managers, and others interested in the Java platform language can come to learn, teach, converse, and collaborate. Such a portfolio would include frameworks, libraries, applications, courses, books, methodologies, papers, research reports and data, articles, sample code, tutorials, and well-educated and talented developers.

java.net is made up of individuals and new, existing, or spontaneous ad hoc communities. It is a place for peers with common problems to come together to solve them collaboratively. For example: educators can collaborate to develop courses; companies sharing infrastructure can work together to improve it; business people can discuss the shape of the market; and researchers working on related topics can pool their resources.   More detail...