General Questions

[Michael Huber]

Hello, I think I am basically at the intermediate level of Java by now. I have studied the Java language but I have explored all of java. Could somone tell me what these are and what they are used for:

EJB
JDBC
JCE
JAAS
JSP
Servlets
XML

are Java beans the same as Enterprise Java beans???

are these classes or some sort or ways of programming java. I want to learn these things but have no idea where to start anybody got some good links or good books???

can I do these things using J2SE??? or do I need J2EE???

thanks for all the help

[Peter den Haan]

Originally posted by Michael Huber:
Hello, I think I am basically at the intermediate level of Java by now. [...] are Java beans the same as Enterprise Java beans???

I'm suddenly getting a bad case of cognitive dissonance Seriously, what you probably want to do is head over to the Sun Java site; it's got great introductions, tutorials, online documentation and downloads on all of the technologies you mentioned, better than I could ever explain it.

JDBC, JCE, JAAS and the Java XML APIs are all part of Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) and the rest can be found in Java 2, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). After you've read the introductions and decided where you'd like to go next, you can find some great book recommendations in the JavaRanch Bunkhouse
Have fun: there's a huge and exciting world there for you to explore!

- Peter
[ August 21, 2004: Message edited by: Peter den Haan ]

[Ko Ko Naing]

Originally posted by Michael Huber:
are these classes or some sort or ways of programming java. I want to learn these things but have no idea where to start anybody got some good links or good books???

can I do these things using J2SE??? or do I need J2EE???

Hi Michael,
It totally depends on you which way you wanna go for... There are three main category in Java Programming, as u might have known before, J2ME, J2SE and J2EE...

If you are interested in Developing Enterprise Application, then J2EE is for you... But if you are interested in building tiny, but robust applications and games, J2ME is suitable for you... But you are interested in Desktop applications like Swing/SWT and socket programming, then you should be on your way to specialize J2SE...

Hope my suggestion might help you...