There's a brand new book that I would highly recommend (in addition to Bruce Eckel's excellent book). It's published by O'Reilly and it's called "Head First Java". It's like no other Java book I've ever seen. In fact, it's almost a picture book on Java. The wonderful thing about the book is that it combines accessibility with depth of knowledge - the concepts haven't been dumbed down for "dummies".
Hal Helms "Java for CF Programmers" class in Las Vegas, August 18-22 www.halhelms.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Cantrell Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [CFCDev] Java Objects On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 08:17 AM, John Farrar wrote: > Can anyone tell me a good book on creating "backends" with java and > using > them like we use CFCs? I certainly wouldn't discourage you from learning some Java, but keep in mind that in addition to the learning curve, writing your components in Java will generally be more time consuming and challenging than writing them in ColdFusion. For instance, you won't automatically have access to things like connection pooling and transactions. You will most likely need to spend a fair amount of time building up an infrastructure before you can actually start writing objects that your application can use directly. That said, I like the book "Thinking in Java" by Bruce Eckel. It has an ugly cover, but it's a good book. Christian ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com). ---------------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to cfcdev. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe cfcdev' in the message of the email. CFCDev is run by CFCZone (www.cfczone.org) and supported by Mindtool, Corporation (www.mindtool.com).
