This section provides important general information about programming with the |sdk-java| that applies to all services you might use with the SDK.

For service-specific programming information and examples (for |EC2|, |S3|, |SWF|, etc.), see :doc:`prog-services`.

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   best-practices
   creating-clients
   credentials
   java-dg-region-selection
   java-dg-exceptions
   basics-async
   java-dg-logging
   section-client-configuration
   java-dg-access-control
   java-dg-jvm-ttl
   generating-sdk-metrics