I've had J2EE for a week now and I'm getting almost nowhere. Its not
the language itself that's the trouble its finding a book that
actually works with J2EE 1.4.

So far I have:
Writing Java Applets - John Rodley (way old flee market pickup)
- Even the helloworld wont compile

Java2 Black Book -Steven Holzner (Bargin bin at store)
- Introductory app/applets compile without errors and
java/appletviever doesn't complain - but they dont actually do
anything.

Sam's Teach Yourself Java2 in 21 Days
- Haven't done much with this one. Printed in 1999 though and from
what little I've seen, J2EE simply isn't backward compatible with
any older examples I can find from 1.2 and 1.3.

I do have some experience programming in C, Modula, Basic (10 or so
flavours including for microcontrollers), SQL, and PHP. I actually
have a grasp of the differences between classes, methods, objects,
inheritance etc. Its mostly a matter of finding references and
examples that actually function that is the problem.

Any good current books? I'm particularly interested in applets as
I'm tackling this in order to use a Lantronix XPort.