> I am interested in getting started in java and jsp. I am a web developer = > that has experience in scripting languages such as PHP, ASP and = > ColdFusion. Could you give me some insight into what I should start = > reading/studying? Which books? Which websites/mailing lists? Any help = > would be appreciated.
The process can be painful, to say the least. I'm going through it myself, and here are my tips: I refer most often to Java Servlet Programming (O'Reilly) and Java Server Pages, also O'Reilly. Neither of them is really complete but between the two of them all the material is there. Tomcat configuration can be somewhat confusing. There is a lot to learn about directory layout and the web.xml file. So, start simple. I'm using Tomcat as a stand-alone server because the last thing I want to do is to have to debug tomcat-apache interaction. Also, one critical hint about Tomcat: if you have other jar files (like for a regexp library, a logger, a or a JDBC) they go in tomcat/lib, or tomcat won't find them. Speaking of loggers, you'll need one. Let me know if you need instructions for setting up log4j with tomcat. Good luck! =========================================================================== To unsubscribe: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "signoff JSP-INTEREST". For digest: mailto [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body: "set JSP-INTEREST DIGEST". Some relevant FAQs on JSP/Servlets can be found at: http://archives.java.sun.com/jsp-interest.html http://java.sun.com/products/jsp/faq.html http://www.esperanto.org.nz/jsp/jspfaq.jsp http://www.jguru.com/faq/index.jsp http://www.jspinsider.com
