Re: mainframe career advice

charles hottel wrote:
I am currently learning Java and the next logical step to me seems to be to learn J2EE and Websphere. What books, web resources or other resources would you recommend for learning J2EE, Websphere and Rational toolset? 

Java:
http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/

J2EE:
http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/docs/tutorial/doc/
http://java.sun.com/blueprints/corej2eepatterns/Patterns/
and practice, practice, practice...

IBM stuff (Rational suite, WebSphere AS):
manuals from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/, then get free trial or community editions and practice, practice, practice...

Most of the books I have read so far have discussed basic Java, Java servlets and JSP. I read Just Java 5th ed. (Dec 2001) by Peter van der Linden which discussed J2EE and Java Beans a little, but he said he could not recommend any J2EE books at that time, so I have been concerned about getting some "good" references. I also have his 6th edition to learn some of the new Java features but in a quick scan I do not see any J2EE stuff and the Java Bean chapter seems to have been removed . 

btw, Java Bean != Enterprise Java Bean

regards,
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mgl
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