Java beginner questions

I need some help please.

My job requires me to do Java. My program has to be cross platform, so Java is the best? choice. The problem is when I start to learn a bit of Java, I get really confused. I encountered things like Applet (which I figure out what is it) Bean, Swing, JNI and other interesting 'aliases' of Java.

I am comfortable with C++ and the OO stuff and I hope that will give me a gentle start, it seems that is not the case. To be specific, my program does not need a beautiful GUI, it is more like a cookie. This 'cookie' can do things like storing (securely) a strong and hard to remember user password and login systems on behalf of a user etc. when a user gives a simple PIN. Please someone tell me should I use Bean, Swing or other lovely named thing.

Thank you in advance.


Will

One thing that I would looking into is using servlets (server-side java) and have the front end be a HTML form. The best book to get started with for servlets is Oreilly's "Programming Servlets".

In reference to your starting with the Java language, the best place is to go to the java.sun.com web site and start with the tutorial or use it as a reference to what you do not understand. If you understand C++ and OO then Java will be a very easy language for you to learn.

Good luck in your quest for Java knowledge

If you like to store username & password with respect to cookies, better go for servlet programming. In servlets, u can use cookies to store the authenticated info by encrypting and can recognise by the userPIN like..

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