Mark E Hansen wrote:Well, I was pretty sure it wasn't me, but then I figured I wasn't the only one on the planet with my name
Kevin Eddy wrote:
deepak thakur wrote:Then I started started reading SOA Architecture using Java WS (Mark E Hansen).
Do you mean Mark D Hansen?
I have that book and plan on going through it myself.
David is right. The IDE can take care of things by hiding some aspects of development. But for me, I found it useful to start with. I'm by no means a Java God so I needed it to start.
Kevin Eddy wrote:I'd recommend using Netbeans for learning servlet's and jsp's. It's got some wizards for creating projects. You can focus on the code without having to worry about configuring your deployment descriptor etc. It integrates nicely with tomcat or glassfish. When you get into javascript, Head First has an awesome book. I read it all the way through. Then of course a JQuery book follows. JQuery makes Ajax real easy. You'll also want Firefox and firebug....essential for developing css.
David Newton wrote:I'd strongly recommend *against* using an IDE when just starting out.
It adds another layer of complexity, does too much work thus not allowing you to actually *learn* what's going on, and fosters over-reliance on the tools, and under-reliance on the brain. (Of course, I wouldn't recommend Notepad, either, but a plain text editor with Java and JSP/HTML/XML highlighting is sufficient.)
In my opinion beginners should *not* use wizards or *anything* that takes away from direct knowledge of what's happening "under the covers".