Re: JAVA coding environment

["John W. Ebrecht" <johnw.ebrecht@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you are an RPG IV ILE person then this may be worth considering: to learn
java I bought Java for RPG Programmers and the associated workbook. It
teaches java comparing the similiarlies to RPGIV. It uses Eclipse IDE which
I like a lot and is similiar to wdsc. It's a bit out of date (written before
free form RPG IV which is even closer to java in syntax). But I've found it
most helpful to understand java. But, it's not a quick read: 700 plus
pages.. But, as it points out: your RPG IV ILE references manuals aren't
skinny either.. And now "learning java objects" is on my list of where to go
next.

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Haas, Matt (CL Tech Sv) <
matt.haas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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> Subject: [WEB400] JAVA coding environment
>
>
> 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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