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From	William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com>
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Subject	Java tools and books
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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.

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Java tools and books William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2011-06-21 22:37 -0400
  Re: Java tools and books lewbloch <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-06-22 00:49 -0700
  Re: Java tools and books Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-06-22 08:12 -0300
    Re: Java tools and books William Colls <william.colls@rogers.com> - 2011-06-22 09:05 -0400
  Re: Java tools and books markspace <-@.> - 2011-06-22 10:08 -0700

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