I want to develop a web application, like an online scheduler. (Yes I know it's been done a million times.) Most of my experience is in Java, so I want to leverage that when considering technologies.
I've primarily been a systems developer with little exposure to UI programming, so I think this is where I will need to do most of my learning.
Do you have any suggestions on the technologies I should focus on? I want to focus on technologies that are marketable and easy to learn.
So far this is what I think I need for a 3-tier architecture (from the ground up):
I've heard about "Rich internet application" development tools such as Flex and Silverlight, but I'm not sure about the market for such technologies.
Edit: Seems like there's a lot of mention of Spring/Hibernate, so I'll look into that. I appreciate the feedback.
I think you've got your bases covered pretty well.
You'll probably want to look into some frameworks / libraries to make it easier on you.
Web Framework - Wicket / Stripes / JSF / Tapestry (component vs request based frameworks)
Javascript Library - JQuery / YUI / Dojo
As for your template language you could use JSP / Velocity / Freemarker.
Just study up on the frameworks and tools maybe try a few out and see which ones work best for you.
Just FYI I'm currently using.