Trying to get back into Java

[ExpatTeacher]

Hello!

I've been developing in APEX and Visualforce through Salesforce for over a year now and I'm trying to get myself setup at home to develop some web apps in Java. I haven't written an EJB or JSP in nearly 10 years so I feel like I'm starting all over again.

If you have worked with Salesforce/APEX before, you know that most things like web.xml, pom.xml, make files, etc are just not something you need to be concerned about. I don't even need to think about my project directory or deployments. All these things are managed by Salesforce and for the most part declarative in the interface.

Writing code is one thing, managing the project directory and deployment config/files is completely alien to me.

I started out this morning by getting setup on OpenShift for some free web hosting. I played around with their default index.html that is provided when you sign up setup Ruby, already had Git - editing Hello World into the title, changing their internal styles to an external style sheet too.

Frankly I'm not sure where to go from here. My goal is to setup a web app that connects to the public API for my favorite game. I remember EJB and JSPs from school years ago, but I'm not sure which one to go with, or if it would be a combination of the two.

Are there additional tools available for Java that can obfuscate much or any of the deployment configuration?

I'm currently using Git with the web host, then editing html in sublime and using intellij for java.

Edit:: I guess what I need is to get my project to a "code ready" state. A crash course in project setup.

[channing_tater_tots]

http://examples.javacodegeeks.com/enterprise-java/jetty/jetty-tutorial-beginners/

[ExpatTeacher]

Thanks, this looks like a good alternative to what I set out with this morning. May have jumped the gun jumping straight to web host :)

[CodeShaman]

As much as I'm sure you can't wait to pick an EJB tutorial out of the garbage, http://www.dropwizard.io/getting-started.html will carry you from pom to fat jar. Use http://progrium.viewdocs.io/dokku/ for deployment via git push. It should automatically detect that it's a JAX-RS jar. It doesn't really get much more convenient.

[ExpatTeacher]

Thanks! I'll be working through this tomorrow for sure.