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WikiJava is a free and open online community of Java developers.

This community is a meeting place for all Java developers providing code examples and tutorials to speed up the process of mastering the (many!) techniques and technologies that are indispensable to all modern developers.

WikiJava encourages programmers to share their experiments and code examples with other programmers, in order to help everyone in the process of learning software development, and build a great personal user reputation.

Why should I use WikiJava?

Generally speaking, software engineers who regularly consult WikiJava learn the Java technologies faster and are able to develop better software. Developers who regularly contribute to WikiJava maintain their learning curve steep.

In WikiJava you may post the software you normally create while you are learning a new technology, so that others can benefit from your experience. You will also benefit from other's experience, because you will be able to see code from other developers, and they can contribute to your code, by correcting it or making it better.

By using WikiJava the rookies can quickly learn how to produce high quality software, and the expert developers can improve their technique and style by having their code reviewed and perfected by peers.

WikiJava's model of cooperation promotes the diffusion of standard coding styles and use of best practices, active members of the WikiJava community are likely to become soon top class software engineers.

Is WikiJava for me?

If you're reading this, probably yes. Everybody may take advantage of WikiJava as it contains material about the basics, as well as about specific and advanced technologies. This makes the community a precious tool for newbies and for expert developers.

Everyone is welcome to contribute to WikiJava. It is this characteristic of having contributions from everyone that makes the community such a powerful tool for developers.

Why WikiJava is so Great?

WikiJava advocates quality programming and use of best practices, the community is a great tool to spread and develop universally acknowledged best practices. The code you can find on WikiJava is especially written to have a great readability according to the best practices in industry. This ensures the code is easy to understand and that you may use it to facilitate your development processes.

What other profit can WikiJava give me?

Above all the obvious benefits for participating to WikiJava, the project has a rewarding mechanism that allows the users to earn real money from their contributions. In this first phase you can link a book in your article page from the huge Amazon store. When someone buys something in the Amazon store from your article link, you'll get money!

We're planning to improve these kind of offers, because we truly believe this is a great way to attract users to share their coding experiments and disclosing the huge amount of source code that normally remains unused and forgotten in the hard disks.

The most interesting your article is, the most people will see it, and suggest to their friends: this will make you earn more, rewarding you for your work. (See the Rewarding System page for more details about this WikiJava feature)