Hello,
I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for advice. I'm beginning to build dynamic sites with Dreamweaver Ultradev 4 (Macintosh). Being a Mac user, I'm really only interested in dealing with remote servers and remote databases.
I normally host on Unix, but I just built my first dynamic site hosted on NT that uses ASP. However, I hate to be tied to using a Microsoft server for everything I do, which is one reason I don't care to learn ASP. I found a host that offers JSP on Linux. Ultradev supports JSP natively so I could create the same kinds of sites using JSP as I could with ASP and get some basic things done easily right away. That's all well and fine. But to be really good at this in the long-run, I want to learn the language in much more depth. Does Java/JSP sound like a good thing for me? I want to be able to start with simple, attainable things and grow as I learn more.
If I move to this new host who offers JSP, do I have what I need to learn Java development beyond basic JSP? Is there something I need on my local machine to be able to get anywhere? Or can I just upload my "whateverTheyAres" to the server and run them there? I'm primarily interested in dynamic site content and database interconnectivity.
From what I understand, Java is supposed to be platform independent. As a Mac user "Platform Independent" is music to my ears. I already have a mySQL JDBC driver and it works fine for connecting to my databases.
I guess I'm trying to find out if Java would be a good choice for me as a language. I know some Perl and PHP. In fact, I was really planning on just concentrating on PHP and going that direction, but Ultradev doesn't support it yet, so I'm stuck with hand-coding everything. That's fine for some things, but the reason I bought Ultradev was to speed up development.
There seems to be a lot more resources out there for PHP at this point in time. I just want to choose a language and stick with it for awhile. Will I be better off in the long run if I go with JSP?
Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you!!
I'm new to this forum and I'm looking for advice. I'm beginning to build dynamic sites with Dreamweaver Ultradev 4 (Macintosh). Being a Mac user, I'm really only interested in dealing with remote servers and remote databases.
I normally host on Unix, but I just built my first dynamic site hosted on NT that uses ASP. However, I hate to be tied to using a Microsoft server for everything I do, which is one reason I don't care to learn ASP. I found a host that offers JSP on Linux. Ultradev supports JSP natively so I could create the same kinds of sites using JSP as I could with ASP and get some basic things done easily right away. That's all well and fine. But to be really good at this in the long-run, I want to learn the language in much more depth. Does Java/JSP sound like a good thing for me? I want to be able to start with simple, attainable things and grow as I learn more.
If I move to this new host who offers JSP, do I have what I need to learn Java development beyond basic JSP? Is there something I need on my local machine to be able to get anywhere? Or can I just upload my "whateverTheyAres" to the server and run them there? I'm primarily interested in dynamic site content and database interconnectivity.
From what I understand, Java is supposed to be platform independent. As a Mac user "Platform Independent" is music to my ears. I already have a mySQL JDBC driver and it works fine for connecting to my databases.
I guess I'm trying to find out if Java would be a good choice for me as a language. I know some Perl and PHP. In fact, I was really planning on just concentrating on PHP and going that direction, but Ultradev doesn't support it yet, so I'm stuck with hand-coding everything. That's fine for some things, but the reason I bought Ultradev was to speed up development.
There seems to be a lot more resources out there for PHP at this point in time. I just want to choose a language and stick with it for awhile. Will I be better off in the long run if I go with JSP?
Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank you!!