Grinder is one of the best tools you can use to learn Java. Grinder is full featured and integrated and runs on top of any standard 1.1x JDK.

Grinder builds, compiles and tests Java applets using the Sun, IBM or Microsoft JDKs. As a result, Grinder offers lightning fast compiles, total code portability and significant productivity increases.

Grinder is freely distributed and includes excellent training materials, on-line samples, a GUI builder and Visual Parser. Click here to Download Grinder.

Designer   a.k.a. Couch Coder, enables you compose Java GUIs and generate lightweight applets using Grinder or any other Java IDE.

Visual Parser illustrates everything in Java class files and how they are sent out over the Internet.