Re: Starting out
Re: Starting out
- Subject: Re: Starting out
- From: David Griffith <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:55:33 +0100
Hi Jeremy,
I was in the same boat a few weeks ago.
First, some good Java Tutorials online:
http://java.sun.com/learning/tutorial/index.html
You will find the Java 1.42 API at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/
You will need the WebObjects API which should be with your installed
WebObjects developer kit.
There quite a few documents about using WebObjects at:
http://developer.apple.com
I am using it for a few weeks now and finding it very powerful, my biggest
problem has been finding some good basic examples and tutorials on how to
approach things in WO. It takes some time to get used to the API's and they
are not particularly explanatory for people that haven't used them before.
They tell you the bare minimum of information in most cases which is often
not enough to get you to where you need to be. Unless you are already very
familiar with Java and WO, which I'm not (or at least wasn't, I'm getting
there day by day).
I have found this list to be very useful, you can search it at:
http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/webobjects-dev/
I try to search for answers before posting them here, but sometimes it's
hard to find them. Also, (please don't anyone take offense to this!) I do
find that sometimes responses here are also a little like the API's. Or
worse, you are told to READ the API. Well, usually I have already done
that, that's why I'm asking the question here. I guess a lot of WO
developers are a bit too busy to answer questions in great detail for the
novice. That said, without this list I would certainly not have gotten as
far as I have. Thanks to everyone that replies here, whether their
responses are detailed or not. Without them, a lot of us would be lost.
Regarding books, there are a number. I have several of them and to be
honest they helped a bit in some areas but were not incredibly useful. I
don't think I have one in particular that I would use as a general
reference.
Hope that helps somewhat!
Dave.
> I have some basic C/C+ training that I've taken, albeit a few years old. I'm
> very interesting in WO development/deployment. I have some WO books, but I
> know little about Java, so it's somewhat useless to me so far. What kind of
> training/education/reading material would you recommend? Most of my peers have
> recommended basic/advanced Java books andd classes, some Cocoa and Obj-C, XML,
> and some DB basics. One person recommended "Design Patterns", but I haven't
> got anything else solid. So if my goal is to be a WO master, where do I begin?
>
> -jeremy
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