How do you make websites with Java

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This might be a really trivial question  but I ve been writing Java programs at my school and I just found out that I can create websites with Java as well     How can I do that  Any good books tutorials for that   Which is better for Web development  Java or PHP   Also  when using PHP  MySQL comes into picture and while writing Java programs for desktop  we just use File I O  so what is better for web dev  File I O or MySQL

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You are asking a few different questions...

How can I create websites with Java?

The simplest way to start making websites with Java is to use JSP. JSP stands for Java Server Pages, and it allows you to embed HTML in Java code files for dynamic page creation. In order to compile and serve JSPs, you will need a Servlet Container, which is basically a web server that runs Java classes. The most popular basic Servlet Container is called Tomcat, and it's provided free by The Apache Software Foundation. Follow the tutorial that cletus provided here.

Once you have Tomcat up and running, and have a basic understanding of how to deploy JSPs, you'll probably want to start creating your own JSPs. I always like IBM developerWorks tutorials. They have a JSP tutorial here that looks alright (though a bit dated).

You'll find out that there is a lot more to Java web development than JSPs, but these tutorials will get you headed in the right direction.

PHP vs. Java

This is a pretty subjective question. PHP and Java are just tools, and in the hands of a bad programmer, any tool is useless. PHP and Java both have their strengths and weaknesses, and the discussion of them is probably outside of the scope of this post. I'd say that if you already know Java, stick with Java.

File I/O vs. MySQL

MySQL is better suited for web applications, as it is designed to handle many concurrent users. You should know though that Java can use MySQL just as easily as PHP can, through JDBC, Java's database connectivity framework.

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I d suggest OOWeb to act as an HTTP server and a templating engine like Velocity to generate HTML   I also second Esko s suggestion of Wicket   Both solutions are considerably simpler than the average setup

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Look into creating Applets if you want to make a website with Java   You most likely wont need to use anything but regular Java  unless you want something more specialized

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Also be advised  that while Java is in general very beginner friendly  getting into JavaEE  Servlets  Facelets  Eclipse integration  JSP and getting everything in Tomcat up and running is not  Certainly not the easiest way to build a website and probably way overkill for most things   On top of that you may need to host your website yourself  because most webspace providers don t provide Servlet Containers  If you just want to check it out for fun  I would try Ruby or Python  which are much more cooler things to fiddle around with  But anyway  to provide at least something relevant to the question  here s a nice Servlet tutorial  link

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I ll jump in with the notorious  Do you really want to do that  answer   It seems like your focus is on playing with Java and seeing what it can do  However  if you want to actually develop a web app  you should be aware that  although Java is used in web applications  and in serious ones   there are other technology options which might be more adequate   Personally  I like  and use  Java for powerful  portable backend services on a server  I ve never tried building websites with it  because it never seemed the most obvious ting to do  After growing tired of PHP  which I have been using for years   I lately fell in love with Django  a Python-based web framework   The Ruby on Rails people have a number of very funny videos on youtube comparing different web technologies to RoR  Of course  these are obviously exaggerated and maybe slightly biased  but I d say there s more than one grain of truth in each of them  The one about Java is here   -

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Read the tutorial on Java Web applications   Basically Web applications are a part of the Java EE standard   A lot of people only use the Web  servlets  part with additional frameworks thrown in  most notably Spring but also Struts  Seam and others   All you need is an IDE like IntelliJ  Eclipse or Netbeans  the JDK  the Java EE download and a servlet container like Tomcat  or a full-blown application server like Glassfish or JBoss    Here is a Tomcat tutorial

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While a lot of others should be mentioned  Apache Wicket should be preferred   Wicket doesn t just reduce lots of boilerplate code  it actually removes it entirely and you can work with excellent separation of business code and markup without mixing the two and a wide variety of other things you can read about from the website

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