Re: JAVA coding environment

Rick,

You'll do better learning about OO concepts before learning Java. There is a book that I think is called "Learning Java Objects" that helped me considerably. They way the book is structured, it presents an OO concept and then has examples of how to do it in Java. It also uses the same example through out the entire book which I like a lot.

Applets are not used very often. Unless you have something specific coming up that requires them, I would not bother with them.

Java and JavaScript are two very different things. Other than sharing the word "Java" and some syntax similarities, they don't really have anything in common.

Matt

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I hope this is the best place for this post. I debated between here and PC-Tech.

My frustration level has been reached trying to use WDSC as a JAVA development environment. Yesterday I spent many hours trying to test a simple 'hello world' applet that took two minutes to code. I need something simpler.

For those of you doing JAVA development, what development environments do you use?

Here are my needs as I think I understand them today:
1) Learn the JAVA language
2) Gain an understanding of OO concepts
3) Understand applets and the use of java script in web pages
4) Ultimately understand the role of JAVA in web services so when WDSC builds a service I know what all the JAVA pieces are doing.
5) Possible write the web service pieces from scratch.

Rick Chevalier




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