Hi
Eclipse IDE seems to be good.you will get more provisions there .

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Hi Michael:

If you are serious about J2EE development, I would stay away from
Microsoft. I lost track with Microsoft's supposed support for Java
especially in the .NET framework.

Some recommended application servers are:

* JBoss (open-source)
* GlassFish (relatively new Sun open-source project)
* BEA WebLogic
* IBM WebSphere

Other recommended IDEs to complement Eclipse and NetBeans are:

* Borland JBuilder
* IntelliJ Idea
* Sun Studio Creator (which Sun just made available for free)

Hope this helps...

Sincerely,

Mike.

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JBoss is a good candidate for learning J2EE.

I'm using emacs for an editor with I'm programming Java. Ant for build tool

All these tools are free and open source.


Best Regards,
Lars-Inge

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If you have no knowledge of Java before, I'd suggest you wait with J2EE and
JSP until you've gotten into the Java language before anything else. Even if
you're fully proficient in VB, Java needs another mindset. Roedy has some
good advice on his page to learn Java:

http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gettingstarted.html

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VS2005 doesn't have that kind of support for Java.

It has support for J#, which is another language, with Java-like syntax.
There are some possibilities to switch between Java and J# with MS-tools,
but then you're restricted to the version corresponding to J2SE
1.1.something...

There has been a lot of changes since (some even to the language in 1.5),
and there's no support for J2EE or JSP at all in VS2005...

// Bjorn A