Weekly Report (Abdullah Cemil Akçam/Nov 18 - Nov 25)

this week i have mainly focused on java platform. i have made some research on the net for java and java related technologies. in today's software world, integrated development environments (ide) are vital for good projects. for an ide to work properly, needed plugins, packages and extensions should be installed beforehand. for java, the most famous ide is netbeans which is a product developed by Sun. Java platform and java programming language are also developed by Sun microsystems. in short, one can easily find java related technologies developed by Sun for all purposes. there are some third party products but in today's world integrity and synchronization are key concepts for good projects. as a result, products developed by a single company is so important. more detailed information can be gathered from :

http://www.sun.com/software/


for the ide part i have preferred netbeans. for netbeans to work properly, Java Development Kit (jdk) and java runtime environment (jre) packages must have been installed previously. thereafter netbeans is installed. to develop web application in netbeans an application server is needed. actually, application server is needed for all platforms in today's dynamic web application. for example in visual studio sql server is used for this purpose. for java there are many alternatives for application server part. some popular candidates are tomcat, jboss. i have chosen glassfish v3 for this part. it is also a sun product. more information about it can be found at:

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/downloads/v3-techPreview-1.html

this installation period is not painless but once you are done with all the parts successfully, the remaining part is just fun with the nice java style and user-friendly tools


Abdullah Cemil Akçam