Getting back into Java
Sunday 26th April 2009It has been about 5 years since I last developed anything in Java. That project was a website for a company licensing images for various products worldwide. I didn’t particularly enjoy the experience and remember setting up the server was a real pain. Now enough time has passed and I’m ready to jump back into using Java again.
Java was in fact my main language at university and when given an interesting task to tackle developing with it was enjoyable. However when I left university and decided it was web development I wanted to pursue a career in Java fell by the wayside and I adopted PHP as my main language. I had been using PHP in my spare time for website builds but now decided I wanted to use it in a professional environment.
I picked up Professional Apache Tomcat 6 » about a week ago and have been reading through it. I’ve now installed Tomcat on a local development (LAMP) box and everything seems to be working: my PHP sites are working as normal and I have configured mod_proxy to forward all Java sites onto Tomcat for processing. Installing Java and Tomcat was extremely easy but settting up mod_proxy and the Tomcat-Apache connectors was fiddly and very annoying.
It was worth playing around with until I got the exact setup I wanted as now I will be able to add Tomcat to our LAMP boxes at work very quickly. So onto actual development – my experience in using Java for website builds is quite limited so I think the next thing on my to-buy list is Murach’s Java Servlets and JSP: 2nd Edition ».
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