Building A J2EE App with Linux
Dejected @Work writes "If you think "Hello World" is always simple and boring try building it with a entity/session EJBs, a servlet, a JSP page, and a HTML home page on Linux. This tutorial shows you how to develop, test, run, and debug a complete J2EE application using Linux and WebSphere(trial download)."
And d/l the Java & J2EE SDK, run on Linux with Apache, Jakarta's Tomcat, JBoss, and use an open source DB like postgres or mySQL.
There are full open source options for J2EE (in fact, I have been toying the idea of making a weblogging program similar to slashcode or scoop with J2EE, under the GPL, of course).
And as a side note, J2EE on windows, linux, unix, or mac isn't different, you know. Did this article just get approved cause it has a tutorial in linux? The only thing that you'll have to deal with is installing the side software in linux (websphere, essentially).
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!