Where do I start?

[LawnBoy]

I'm a SysAdmin familiar with C, Basic, and assembler and I want to teach myself Java. I have a server running Netware 6.5 with Apache and Tomcat loaded and running.

Where would be a good place to start? I need to learn not only how to write Java code, but what to do with it on the server so that it's visible on my company's intranet.

Any tips or references would be most appreciated!

 

[sedj]

Well the first place to start is learning the core langauge. You should really do this before even attempting any parts of J2EE, including JSP & servlets. If you do not, you will run into severe problems at best, and at worst never really understand what your JSP/servlets are doing.

If you know C, you shouldn't have much problem.

Start here

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

, and be prepared for a possibly long haul ... I've been programming Java solid for 3 years, and am still learning !






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[LawnBoy]

Thanks again, sedj. I certainly don't expect to become an expert in Java anytime soon, if at all. I'm just a dilletante, trying to get some scripts wriiten for our intranet.

I've looked into Perl, but seeing as I don't have any cgi interpreters on my webserver (and I'm unwilling to play around with this production server too much) I thought Java might be the way to go.

Wave of the Future, and all that.