TommyWillB
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I am a HTML (plus coldFusion & beginner ASP) Web developer. Since getting Mac OS X (back in the public beta) I have decided that I want to move my skills to the next level, and my first thoughts naturally are PHP/mySQL and/or Java.
So far I've only proceeded to the step of configuring my machine so that it can do Perl, PHP, mySQL, Tomcat JSP & Servlets.
I just went to the MacWorld "Mac OS X Web Publishing" and"Mac OS X Programming in Java" pro conferences, thinking these might inspire me to dig more deeply into one thing or another.
The thing is both of these courses focused primarily on Java, but the first was Web Object centric and the latter was a pure Java guy. Some of their comments were in direct contridiction.
For exapmple one suggested using both ProjectBuilder and all of the great WO and Java Swing extensions that Apple provides. The other said, No stick to pure Jave and pure Java IDE's.
Now I REALLY don't want to incite any sort of religious war, but instead I'm looking for some suggestions on how you would reccomend a non-computer science type should begin playing with Java on OS X?
So far I've only proceeded to the step of configuring my machine so that it can do Perl, PHP, mySQL, Tomcat JSP & Servlets.
I just went to the MacWorld "Mac OS X Web Publishing" and"Mac OS X Programming in Java" pro conferences, thinking these might inspire me to dig more deeply into one thing or another.
The thing is both of these courses focused primarily on Java, but the first was Web Object centric and the latter was a pure Java guy. Some of their comments were in direct contridiction.
For exapmple one suggested using both ProjectBuilder and all of the great WO and Java Swing extensions that Apple provides. The other said, No stick to pure Jave and pure Java IDE's.
Now I REALLY don't want to incite any sort of religious war, but instead I'm looking for some suggestions on how you would reccomend a non-computer science type should begin playing with Java on OS X?