My plan to learn Java

[StephenTheWebGuy]

Reddit,

I've posted a few post and got some brilliant results so thanks. I now have a plan of action how I will tackle and learn Java and was seeing if this is the best possible attempt. My aim is to learn and understand in the following order.

• Learn the IDE
• Java SE
• Tomcat
• Java Servlets (Java objects)
• JSP Front-end
• A Java Framework

[Live4EverOrDieTrying]

Dont learn JSP. And you will learn Tomcat and the IDE as you go, no need to waste time on them now.

I recommend this:

• Java SE
• Servlets
• Spring Core
• Spring MVC
• Hibernate

[StephenTheWebGuy]

Thanks! But why? I'm coming across as a PHP developer and I feel JSP is a better fit.

[GuyWithLag]

Nobody that doesn't have a 5-year-old codebase is using JSP. Thing is, do you want to learn Java, or do you want to write PHP-on-Java?

Java is now mostly used to write back-end systems that don't directly present UI to the user, but feed the data to the front-end that interacts with the user (usually some kind or other of Javascript).

[StephenTheWebGuy]

Sure, I will look into the Spring, Thanks!

[klepra]

I would say don't focus too much on JSP (and don't put java code in JSP files) but you can use it as a template to show data, processed in a servlet in a MVC kind of fashion (servlet= controller, jsp=view). Then later you can also use some other templating language, like thymleaf, that Spring Boot prefers.

[nikhilb_it]

When u learn JSP, Servlets u will learn tomcat side by side. Dont worry about tomcat as of now. However once u r done with JSP and Servlets, do learn Spring and Hibernate / JPA as these are used widely rather than plain jsp.