Java beginner web-development toolkit/environment

Question

I have been tasked to develop an interactive website using java & mysql: using servlets to retrieve & massage data, applets to do special handling of the data client-sid

Answer 1

For web-development I use (and would recommend) the following:

• JSP/Servlet API
• Spring MVC
• JQuery
• XHTML & CSS
• Fitnesse

With regards to resources, all these technologies are well documented on their respective sites, the only exception being XHTML & CSS for which I'd suggest http://www.alistapart.com.

With regards to editors both IntelliJ and (I believe) Eclipse have very good HTML, CSS, JSP and JavaScript editors.

Also use Firefox (as Brian has suggested) with both the Web Developer plugin and Firebug - both of these are indispensable.