Re: Recommendations For Reading Material

[Joel Cochran <jrc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Sun's "CORE Servlets and JavaServer Pages"  by Marty Hall is a very good
book.  I'd also recommend getting something that deals with JDBC, maybe
Wrox's "Professional Java Data" or something along those lines.  I tend
to like Wrox books as a rule of thumb.  

The thing to remember, is that while there are some special classes and
packages for J2EE, you still have complete access to the J2SE spec, so
the more you can learn about Java overall, the more you can do with your
web pages.  I'm just not sure if I would focus on web-stuff so much as
the language itself.  (Unless you have a specific Web project you are
learning this for)

And I'm not talking about "HelloWorld" either.  Write a program that
uses JDBC to access the 400 from your PC, format the ResultSet data and
write it out to a text file, or use it to Serialize an object.  You'll
learn a lot along the way, and these kinds of exercises will serve you
well in almost any Java project.

For the web of course, the more web technologies you are comfortable
with in general the better (like XHTML and CSS).

Joel Cochran
http://www.rpgnext.com


On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:04, RPower@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello all,
> In the past few weeks the push has been for me to learn Java for web 
> development purposes.  I am currently an iSeries programmer (CL, and 
> RPGLE) that knows enough Java to be dangerous at this point.  I'm looking 
> for guidance on a good place to start (book, reference manual, etc) to 
> learn the complete process for developing an application for the web.  I'm 
> sick of Hello World to be quite frank.  That's too simple, in other words 
> I'm beyond that.  My Java skills at this point are enough that I 
> understand how the syntax goes, but I'm not able to piece it all together 
> to form an application easily.  Where I am stumped is where to start.  I'd 
> like to use WDSc to do my Java programming in as well.
> Any ideas where I could start my re-education?
> 
> Ron Power
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