Hi, i'm going to start learning JSP from zero. Can anyone send some good tutorial links ? what are the best ide's? can i use JSP in here?how?

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Hi,
I am a beginner like you in Jsp ... but not in Java !
To find examples and tutorials, there are two ways, I advice to you to :
- pass by forums and search engines like Google !
- go to the Official Sun Web site
In all case, you need a Jsp editor, I am currently using Dreamweaver MX (not free ) !
And when I develop JavaBeans, I use Eclipse (free ) !

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well there are many many many sites....
the best thing to do is to google if you have a specific question (but i suppose you knew that
already *g*). suns official site is really good, but might also check out other sites:

http://www.jsptut.com/

http://www.jspin.com/

I can especially recommend the sun specs of jsps and servlets. most tutorials unfortunately won't be able to cover
all your questions...

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Use PHP! JSP is used by friendster.com before that's why their service is slow... now they use PHP... PHP is the most friendliest programming language ever!

 

 

 

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I suppose you trying the simple html editor.
Coding it without any ide.
for me i do it with Dreamweaver MX.
But i still code myself.

I try servlet with Note Pad.


Good Luck Friend!.

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re: Dreamweaver... I find that Dreamweaver adds confusion. I like using WYSIWYGs. www.texpad.com is good. It's a good habbit to know all the code.

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hi,

http://www.caucho.com/resin-3.0/jsp/index.xtp

http://www.jsptut.com/

are good links for beginners. Later on, go to the sun site and u will find lot of info.

I personally use Eclipse IDE for devlopment along with jsp plugin.
but some free text editors with syntax highlighting would do well too.

and there's always "Google".

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JSP is a combination of HTML and Java. I suppose you are professional to HTML and new to Java. Of course you may not. To start with JSP, actually you need learn Java first.

1 you can read these topics in Java Tutorial
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/index.html
Getting Started
Learning the Java Language
Essential Java Classes
Collections
JavaBeans
JDBC Database Access

These are enough for you to start JSP.

2 JSP is based on servlet, actually JSP is translated to SERVLET before it is executed. Of course, learn servlet is not a must to start JSP. Just let you know their relationship. Here is a good place to start.
http://javaboutique.internet.com/tutorials/JSP/

Then you can code JSP, but you can code does not mean you know how to code correctly. The following help you understand JavaServer Pages Model 2 architecture
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-12-1...ssj-jspmvc.html

3 Then you try to install Tomcat and try to run
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-12-1999/ssj/ShoppingCart.jar
To know how to deploy your application.

A long term work. :-)

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Here is a very good link for beginner:
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-Tutorial/

I myself started to learn JSP/Servlet from this site, not from Sun.
Try this link:
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Servlet-...torial-JSP.html

After few hours reading this site, I started to write JSP/Servlet for Windchill/Intralink Gateway (if you want to know about Windchill and Intralink, see www.ptc.com) or search the Web for it. In the year of 2002, Windchill got the Award of The World's second best Enterprise Software Architecture (After Matrix One).

But I doubt if it ever get any high award any more, because many good senior developers have left PTC, including me ...he ...he ...

About Sun JSP/Servlet tutorials, I think that they have samples to illustrate the technical points well, but their samples were poor designed, and violate certain principles of OOP and Design Patterns. One of the worst samples is the Mail Application using JSP/ Servlet.
I have a much better one, using MVC design pattern model 2, Java Bean, Data Transfer Object pattern, and you can see the demo at:
http://www.hanoian.com/jspmail

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I want to thank all u guys for your replies, i've away from this forums, now its the real start and i must say that u all have given me quite a hand

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