OK guys, as title. Need some good primer / teach yourself books in Java and J2EE. There's the possibility of a coding Job coming up at work in a couple of months time, and I'd like to be in a poition to apply for it. But they want Java / J2EE skills, and I don't have them. Yet. I'm proficient in .NET and C# and other languages, and have developed both mainframe, standalone PC, three tier client / server apps & web based applications before so coding isn't new to me, so they don't need to be Janet and John do programming. That said, if it's a good book, I'll consider anything! Ta Muchly. GOO
That's as maybe, but your suggestion isn't very helpful. The job on offer doesn't involve flash, so it'd be pointless to learn it in an effort to secure a position that requires a different technology, hmm?
The books by Sun are always the most thorough. I am never without the Core Java volumes. They come from The Sun Microsystems Press. Grab one of the JDKs and Eclipse and start easy. john
My mate has those, and he's agreed to let me borrow them. Eclipse is something of a revelation. Wow. A fully featured cross platform IDE for free?To an ex .NET man that's had to ensure he has a license for everything, that's inconceivable! Hell - it even looks pretty. Yes, I have done the obligatory 'hello world' app.
i learned java with cay horstmann's 'big java', it was pretty good. he's got a new one out now, 'java concepts', and i've had a read through it. it looks to be good too. as for java ee books, i can't help you there. i learned by reading the glassfish documentation pages online, but i wouldn't recommend that.
1 flash is nothing like java (I can only presume you are talking about javascript) and 2, flash will never "replace" javascript. If anything flash is being replaced by javascript! (thank god) Another vote for big java btw. That was the main one I remember from uni.
another vote for big java from me. Also if you want to check out another free IDE, netbeans is pretty good.
