Perhaps you’ve noticed the Java topic has been a bit lacking lately. Well, I’ve had some time to finally renew my interest in teaching myself Java, and I’ve been trying to get a development environment setup on my workstation. Its going to be a crash course as I need to be spending my spare time back on homework towards my CompSci degree soon, but hopefully I’ll get something up and running before January.

I’m hoping to have the time to write a /very simple/ JSP and Servlet application to replace GeekLog with, and I’m to the point of testing connectivity from Servlets in Tomcat to MySQL. I have a simple servlet which tries to connect to MySQL, but I’m not getting any debugging output as to what is going on.

At the moment, I’m still in the process of getting integrated debugging working with my current IDE of choice, JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, but haven’t quite got it working yet. It’s about time for me to get some sleep, but here are a couple of helpful links which will hopefully help me get it up and running tomorrow evening: