Patrick Kobly wrote:
FWIW, If you're looking to do anything moderately serious, you're going to want to use Maven to manage your build and dependencies...
I normally use Eclipse, but when looking into servlets I thought it would be simplest to use Java directly, at least to begin with.
I find Eclipse has several drawbacks - eg, the editor that comes with it seems to me to have serious faults, so that sections of the source programs are likely to disappear into a black hole. But it also has advantages, particularly in debugging, and for me these just about outweigh the disadvantages.
I looked at Maven very briefly, but it looked excessively complicated to me. But I am not a serious Java user,