Relearning Java advice

[laurens10]

I just heard the future of the ERP system I work on is Java! (Yay! I get to develop a more diverse skill portfolio!)

I used Java some time back in college, but it's been several years so it will be somewhat like starting from scratch.

For those that use it, what books would you recommend for me to read and work through to get my skills up to

Comments

[sethg_prime]

The relevant titles from O’Reilly’s Head First series are worth looking into. I’ve been out of the Java world for years (thank God) but I trust the brand and the author.

One thing to keep in mind is that “Java” has metastasized into dozens of brand names with overlapping libraries and implementations, so make sure you understand which tentacles of the octopus you will have to wrestle with in your job’s brave new future. If they’re only going to use Enterprise Java Beans for talking to their database, you don’t want to burn brain cells learning Hibernate, or vice versa.

[laurens10]

Thank you! This is very helpful. I bought the Head First for Java book from Amazon today. I'm not sure which tentacle we will be tackling, but I'd like to get the basics down first.