Java Newbie Question

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Sean Murphy - 07 Mar 2006 03:42 GMT

I am just getting started with Java, and come from a background in Microsoft
languages ... I am having a grand ole time with all of the Java Lingo. How
do I sort out all of the acronyms ... J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, servlets, applets,
etc., etc. Or does this just come with time???

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Tail_Spin - 07 Mar 2006 04:13 GMT

I've found two of the best resoures for me (relative newbie) are google and
the sun java site http://java.sun.com/.

> I am just getting started with Java, and come from a background in Microsoft
> languages ... I am having a grand ole time with all of the Java Lingo. How
> do I sort out all of the acronyms ... J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, servlets, applets,
> etc., etc. Or does this just come with time???

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Stefan Ram - 07 Mar 2006 04:20 GMT

>I am just getting started with Java, and come from a background
>in Microsoft languages ... I am having a grand ole time with
>all of the Java Lingo. How do I sort out all of the acronyms
>... J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, servlets, applets,

Don't worry! For the beginning it is entirely sufficient to
know about (in addition to the terms you already have
mentionend) Ant, AntLR, Anvil, AWT, BCEL, Beans, Beanshell,
BlueJ, CoCoon, derby, Dolphin, DOM, Echo, Eclipse, Hibernate,
hsqldb, IntelliJ, iText, J2ME, Jakarta, JavaDoc, JBoss,
JBuilder, JDBC, JDK, JFC, JGoodies, JNI, JNLP, JSF, JSP,
Jucas, JUnit, JVM, Lopica, Maven, Maverick, Midlet, Mustang,
NetBeans, SAX, Spring, Struts, Swing, Tapestry, Tomcat,
Torque, Turbine, UI-delegates, Verge, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI,
JavaBeans, JAXP, JAX-RPC, SAAJ, JAXR, Tag Libraries, JSTL,
Enterprise Java Beans, JAR, JTA, JNDI, JMS, JDOM, dom4j, and
Java Webstart.

To get the meaning, you can read google, sun or mindprod.com.

Just write the buzzword on a file card and its meaning on the
other side and then learn whenever you have some time to
spare.

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Amfur Kilnem - 07 Mar 2006 04:51 GMT

>I am just getting started with Java, and come from a background in
>Microsoft
> languages ... I am having a grand ole time with all of the Java Lingo. How
> do I sort out all of the acronyms ... J2EE, J2SE, J2ME, servlets, applets,
> etc., etc. Or does this just come with time???

Go here...
http://java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/new2java/programming/learn/unraveli
ngjava.html

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Oliver Wong - 07 Mar 2006 18:14 GMT

I think the trick most people use can be summarized thus:

When you encounter an ancronym (or term) that you don't know, look it up
(e.g. via Google).

For what it's worth, I program in Java for a living, and there's a
couple of terms in Stefan's post which I don't recognize (and didn't bother
to look up); e.g. Anvil, Jucas, Turbine, etc.

- Oliver

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Roedy Green - 07 Mar 2006 22:50 GMT

> I think the trick most people use can be summarized thus:
>
> When you encounter an ancronym (or term) that you don't know, look it up
>(e.g. via Google).

with Google try definition:JSE

You can also jcheck the Java glossary. If you find a Java-related one
not there, tell me and there soon will be an entyr.
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jgloss.html

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IchBin - 08 Mar 2006 03:54 GMT

If I have acronym I don't know then I use an acronym finder website:
http://www.acronymfinder.com

Once I have a handle on that I can do some serious searching..

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