What other resources are available for learning J2EE application development?
Freeman: At present J2EE is putting together a Developer’s Corner that should be available before JavaOne; check for this at http://java.sun.com/j2ee. As I mentioned before, there’s a new J2EE tutorial available at http://java.sun.com/j2ee/tutorial. Another useful resource is the document bundle that comes with the reference implementation. Included in this bundle is the J2EE Developer’s Guide, which helps developers take advantage of the Deploytool, a GUI-based tool that comes with the reference implementation. The Java Developer Connection has resources for learning more about J2EE, for example, http://developer.java.sun.com/developers/technicalArticles/J2EE. For developers looking for an IDE, there’s an early-access release of the J2EE IDE Toolkit at http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/earlyAccess/j2eeide-toolkit. JDJ: Are there other “Blueprints” under development for the Java platform? Does Sun plan to provide other implementations of them? Freeman: Yes, there are other other