Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java tools and books Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 40 Message-ID: <9e8ec756-c296-4792-88c8-81c5c478d25b@e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.89.33.208 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1308729349 14841 127.0.0.1 (22 Jun 2011 07:55:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:55:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e17g2000prj.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.89.33.208; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.30 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/12.0.742.91 Safari/534.30,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5512 On Jun 21, 7:37=A0pm, William Colls wrote: > I am just getting into the java world, and I am looking to mine the > collected wisdom of the group for some suggestions. > > 1. Are there any reference books that you would consider essential. I > have O'Rielly's Java in a nutshell(4th edition). This only goes as far > as v 1.4. Is worth getting a newer edition? I also have Sam's "Teach > yourself Java 2 in 21 days" which uses SDK 1.5. Not going to get the > newer edition. I have looked at/read some of/bookmarked the tutorial > pages on the Oracle site. I know there are lots more online references. > So any other books/sites/resources that you would consider as essential > to the beginner? > > 2 Tools for working with Java. I am currently working with NetBeans IDE > 6.8. I am aware of ant and tomcat, but not intimately familiar with > either of them. I have used eclipse as a developmnet environment in the > past, but not for java, and it was a limited, and short exposure. So > what tools/IDE's should I be getting (at least) familiar with? > > Thank you for your time and thoughtful answers. I recognize that the > above questions a somewhat in the "how long is a piece of string" > question category, but hopefully I can get some feel for the things I > need to be looking at/for. > > Again, Thanks for your time. Absolutely read Joshua Bloch's /Effective Java/, 2nd edition. http://java.sun.com/docs/books/effective/ after reading the Java tutorials, of course. IBM Developerworks has tons of great Java articles. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/ Read anything written by Joshua Bloch, Brian Goetz, Doug Lea. That's just to get going. -- Lew