Hi Everyone!
Ye Gods! Look at the number of posts in here!! (First time here)
I told my friend that I would be happy to do some
Java Server work for him so I can get some marketable experience. The only problem is ... I DON�T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT
SERVLETS OR
JSP!!! Its a pretty straightforward project though, he wants a program on the server that takes in info and stores it into a database, so I am assuming I�m going to need to know about servlets and JSP (and maybe a bit of
JDBC). Can anyone recommend any good books on the subject? I am a
SCJP so I am comfortable with the Java syntax, but know next to nothing about running Java on a Server. Ideally I would like something that starts with the basics and builds from there with LOTS of examples to illustrate what they are talking about. Maybe even something that builds an example Server project???
Also, my intuition tells me that the best way to design this is to have the program collect the info into an XML file, and then from the XML file put it into the DB. I�m not sure why my intuition tells me this ... something about being able to easily change the DB later. But I don�t understand how this could be, after all the server is still going to have to translate the XML into the DB, so where is the value in going to XML first? Of course it is possible that my intuition is totally off base here, its usually only super accurate when it comes to blind dates!
Thanks in advance,
Dan