As a non IT person with a dream of building a scalable web based application for an educational idea, I am going through the Head First series and have completed HF
Java, HF OOAD, and HF CSS/XHTML.
I am looking ahead to the
EJB,
Servlets &
JSP, and Ajax books. I envisage that I will go to a local swap meet to buy some cheap hardware and set up my own server to play with.
Q1)Could somebody give me some advice on what kind of hardware I need to play with EJB JSP and AJAX? I currently have a standard box with an ADSL connection. The server will not need to go �live�.
Some supplementary question if I may
Q2)what server side software do I need? Can somebody point to a link to explain? I am not sure how J2EE, EJB,
Tomcat and
JBoss relate to each other.
Q3)I understand that the EJB Head First book uses J2EE which is now out of date with Java EE 5. Does this make the book redundant, or will it still be worthwhile?
Thanks
Marten