Where I work, there's an ...unexpected want for Java developers.  I've never dealt with Java, at all, on any level but some books I've read have said when the cheeze moves, you go with the cheeze.  Now before you want to have me skinned alive, let me say this, I'm not leaving my wonderful world of .Net, at all.  I'm supplimenting and well, I've wanted to learn Java for a while now, so learn I shall.  Why?  I have my reasons and some of them are really freakin cool.

First impression, FINDING the stuff for Java is a pain.  There's no easy "if you are just starting out" area that tells you to just download stuff that you'll figure out later.  Go ahead, take a look and find it.  I'll wait.  Takes forever, but here, download this http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/final/ and download "all".  Also, I found over on youtube some video tutorials.  Sweet sweet.

Next, I hopped over to Amazon Jimazon to look for some Java books -- none of which are SE6.  Granted right now I have no idea what  the differences are, maybe its like .net2, 3 and 3.5, but it might be a good idea, I think, to find something thats v6 and thats newer than 2002.  Doh.  Amazon it is.  I'll have to pause this research project for now I guess ...unless I come across something really sweet.