Hi all,

I'm kinda new to Java and haven't program in years. Last one was Pascal. I have a major program project for this year and would like some recommendation.

Story.
Assign to Java as the language to get the project up and running. But we told that we can do any flavour of java.

It will require SQL to be the back-end so we need to get the front-end up. My question is which one will be the easier one to 1) learn the language 2) able to link it to the sql back-end 3) prefer IE as the interface.

Can someone please give me some guidance to getting started. I have a java book to get me started but would like some points to know what to do or how to start the project.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

Java doesn't have flavors per se. There are different libraries that add additional functionallity but the language itself has only recently had the first change to it in a very long time.

If I understand correctly this is a web based application. That leads me to think that you will want to look towards using at least part of J2EE (Java2 Enterprise Edition). J2EE is a large set of libraries and protocols that help you to build large applications that are traditionally web based. Be warned though that J2EE is big - very big. It is very likely that you will not need all of the capabilities that J2EE offers. Depending on the size of your application something like Tomcat (http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/) might be a good start. Tomcat supports JSP (Java Server Pages) and Servlets. These two technologies allow you to create a well designed site using good programming practices. They can help you separate your display logic from your business logic - and keep SQL out of your display logic.

This is just a very rough set of ideas to get you started. If you're new to object oriented programming too you might want to look for an introductory book on that too as Java is an OO based language.


Hi all,

I'm kinda new to Java and haven't program in years. Last one was Pascal. I have a major program project for this year and would like some recommendation.

Story.
Assign to Java as the language to get the project up and running. But we told that we can do any flavour of java.

It will require SQL to be the back-end so we need to get the front-end up. My question is which one will be the easier one to 1) learn the language 2) able to link it to the sql back-end 3) prefer IE as the interface.

Can someone please give me some guidance to getting started. I have a java book to get me started but would like some points to know what to do or how to start the project.

Thanks for your time and assistance.