For information about the.NET Framework http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/
For information about a development environment for programming in any supported language — Visual Studio .NET http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/
For information about the operating system that supports distributed environments and the .NET Framework — the Windows Server System http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/default.mspx
To download version 1.1 of the .NET Framework http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/howtoget.aspx#section3
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From the Windows Update Service http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
For more details about Java 2 SDK 1.5 support for attribute-like structures JSR 175: A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=175
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New Language Features for Ease of Development in the Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.5: A Conversation with Joshua Bloch http://java.sun.com/features/2003/05/bloch_qa.html
For more information about best practices for deploying assemblies into the global assembly cache Deploying .NET Framework-based Applications http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/DALGRoadmap.asp
To download the English version of the .NET Framework SDK v1.1 from the SDK Web site http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9b3a2ca6-3647-4070-9f41-a333c6b9181d&displaylang=en
To download Web Matrix, an alternative free integrated development environment From the ASP.NET Web site http://www.asp.net/webmatrix
For more information about the LDAP API and about programming in LDAP Microsoft Platform SDK link on the Web Resources page http://windows.microsoft.com/windows2000/reskit/webresources
To download the Java 2 SDK, Standard Edition v 1.4 See Sun’s Java site http://java.sun.com/
For more information about ANT See the Apache ANT Web site http://ant.apache.org/