This tutorial covers Java 1.0 and has grown into a book called The Java Developer's Resource, which is now out of print, but the examples and exercises from that book are online here. The tutorial provides an introduction to Java and covers the basic syntax of the language, the basics of writing applets in Java and introduces objects, classes, methods, and interfaces.
Go to the link at http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/redir.pl?url=http://www.cafeaulait.org/javatutorial.html&handle=p.curran.1043236503
