Where does the Java community hang out?
For the past little while I have been searching for a really good Java forum/community. I haven’t found one yet.
For the longest time I was a regular member at MandrakeUsers.org, an excellent community forum for Mandrake Linux and other Linux distros. If you ever need help with Mandrake, this is the place to go. There are some very smart people on that board. I am now looking for the same thing for Java. Specifically, I am looking for a board that covers J2EE and JBoss along with various Java tools such as Ant, JUnit, Log4J, and others.
There is so much to learn when it comes to Java and J2EE and an active community forum can go a long way to helping newbies come to grips with that learning curve. Therefore, I am asking all of you out there if any of you know of any good Java communities? A Java community can be an email list, a forum, a newsgroups, whatever. Just some form of newbie friendly community that doesn’t mind the odd dumb question.
I know a good place just take a look at linuxape.com
javaranch.com is pretty good.
I have been hanging out at javaranch.com lately and have found it to be an excellent community. However, even there, I have noticed that on their forums, the majority of questions still go unanswered or only contain partial answers. I wonder if this is because the Java community as a whole is not as open as some of the other communities (linux, php) that I have been a part of?