Hi,
I have made a goal to learn how to program with
J2EE on my Mac. I plan to get my
Java Associate, Java Programmer and Java Developer Certificates. I have the books picked out and I think that I can get these three certificates on my own.
I also plan to study the book "The J2EE Tutorial, Second Edition". The problem with this book is that it has a CD with tools for Linux (which don't unpack on my Mac), Solaris, and Windows.
Also, I've been looking into the job market and have found that there seems to be a lot of Open Source Tools in use such as: Hibernate,
JUnit,
JBoss, Spring etc.
I plan to buy the book: "J2EE Open Source Toolkit : Building an Enterprise Platform with Open Source Tools (Java Open Source Library)" to assemble a toolkit of open-source tools that I can use on my Mac.
I understand that Sun is open-sourcing Java itself. What does this mean to me? Does it mean that I wouldn't have to assemble third-party open-source tools? Can I just use tools from Sun instead?
What would you all recommend to me for tools to make the leap from J2SE to J2EE?
-- Kaydell