Java web dev newbie - guidance needed 3

[hapax]

I'm an ASP.NET web developer, but I want to learn about Java web development to expand my skillset (and maybe switch over sometime).

Please point me in the right direction:

What are the best options for general-purpose, modern website deveopment - is it JSP front end, to go along with the Java back end (JavaBeans?), and JDBC/database stuff?


I'm more interested in back end development, not front end.

I actually did JSP for about 6 months in 2001 (not much actual Java). But I'm out of touch now with the whole Java world.

I have Eclipse installed and running. A good IDE for web development?

 

[prosper]

Website development may need JavaBeans, jsp(you may use taglib when necessary), Java Servlet. Using JDBC in JavaBeans, Servlet
to connect to database system(dbms) or to call stored procedure on dbms.

You may use framwork(Struts, Spring) to control your program flow.

If you are working with xml, you may need to know about sax, dom and xslt.

 

[Dreloch]

Hibernate seems to be a popular open source database persistance tool. You can get a plugin toolset for eclipse from JBoss/tools website. It has some code generators for some of the conection config files. I have noticed from a stack trace that ExpressScripts uses hibernate and Struts for its website.

 

[Diancecht]

I'd go for plain Java first to understand the basis. After that, Spring is the way to go.

Cheers,
Dian