On Thu, 24 Oct 2002 13:08, Tracey Maule wrote:
> phew
>
> well thanks heaps for the input guys =)
>
> What software do u use to wite java? Do M$ have a product?
The 'compiler' and Java Virtual Machine are free. In fact there are several.
The primary ones are from Sun and IBM. You can download them from their
respective web sites.
There are several options for an IDE. You could of course purchase JBuilder -
however I don't think thats the road you want to go down unless you have some
money in need of a good home :-)
As far as free IDE's are concerned there is Forte, NetBeans, Eclipse, JEdit,
Anjuta. There are also a number of commercial IDE's.
There is great help for Java online, and there are also plenty of good books.
Servlet development is really quite easy to get started with.
> was it hard to learn?
Not really.
> are you saying java is better than using delphi isapi?? why?(apart from
> portability)
One reason is connection pooling. The Java server opens a pool of database
connections and doles them out to requests as required - no need to establish
a connection on every request.
Also Java Servlets have session handling which means you can add information
to a server side session object, and that session object becomes visible to
all other servlets servicing the same client. Dealing with maintaining the
clients session is taken care of for you.
Servlets also take care of parsing the requests parameters for you, and also
automate the generation and parsing of cookies.
Then there is the technologies around Servlets, such as JSP, WebMacro,
Verlocity, Struts etc. These technologies allow you to separate HTML from
Code, and to manage the complexity and flow of a web application.
Regards,
Peter
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