where to start

good to read

• http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/
• http://static.springframework.org/spring/do..

download first

• http://www.springframework.org/
• http://tomcat.apache.org/ – if you want to use tomcat with some IDE like netbeans or eclipse, download zip package instead of win-installer as it doesn’t have start-up and stopping file with it. win installer is using services to start and stop server.
• http://www.netbeans.org/ – ready to use. 6th version is OK. I had impression that it has problems with deploying my war files on server.
• http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ – heh for inexperienced user as I am it was and sometimes it is a nightmare to configure it. or maybe I had just a bad luck.