Originally Posted by
ownlol
well my friend hasn't decided which server he wants to use. But i will check out Tomcat.
Yes, do. Probably end up using NetBeans. Read up for now. Do not hire the first server you find. There is a great variance in the quality of servers actually available. If you have an internet connection, often you can use that as an internets server. It just gets deeper and deeper like Alice in Wonderland, but you can always find free servers in a matter of minutes or hours if you know what to look for and how to look for it.
Read Complete Idiot's Guide to ..... as the first book, then go to O'Reilly books to start your first real efforts. I have found Elsevier, Addison-Wesley Charles-River Media and John-Wiley to be the players that plan to stay. You can get any title at the library, just becuase it is not on the shelf does not be a problem.
Originally Posted by
ownlol
So your saying the applet can read from the file on the server, but can't write. Could I use Tomcat to write info taken from the applet on the server?
Tomcat can talk to the applet all it wants to, writing files is another matter. Consider the html written to the browser as a file.
You can begin that today, write an html file and open it right there. HTML is safe and easy place to start. The code you write today can be used later when,.....
I still use the first html page I ever wrote. There is a free webserver right in the sample documentation that comes with the Java Development Kit. It will run right there on your computer.