RE: Recommendations For Reading Material

Joe,

I've been meaning to ask.  What's the difference between WDSC: Step by Step and 
Eclipse: Step by Step?


Thanks,

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:26 PM
> To: 'Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400'
> Subject: RE: Recommendations For Reading Material
> 
> 
> WDSC: Step by Step was designed specifically to take a green screen
> programmer through all of the basic functions of WDSc with a 
> real world
> example.  It starts with using the basic web design features 
> to build a
> simple web site.  This part introduces you to HTML and Cascading Style
> Sheets.
> 
> Next, the book walks you through creating a JavaSever Page to show
> dynamic data, and how to write a servlet to populate that JSP.  This
> gives you an example of basic JavaServer Page and Java syntaxes
> (including explanation of the code).
> 
> Finally, it describes how to create an RPG program and call 
> it from the
> servlet for a truly dynamic application with a web front end 
> and an RPG
> back end, all working within a consistent web site.
> 
> Not only that, all the source is there, and you don't have to type
> everything in.  It even has "checkpoints" at each stage of the process
> so that you can start at a specific chapter if you want to learn some
> particular piece quickly, or revisit it at a later date.
> 
> Okay, I wrote it and I'm a little biased.  But I think I did a pretty
> good job on it <grin>.
> 
> Joe
>