Java beginner web-development toolkit/environment

Question

I have been tasked to develop an interactive website using java & mysql: using servlets to retrieve & massage data, applets to do special handling of the data client-sid

Answer 1

• Server side
  Tomcat6
• CMS
  Drupal (not necessary in prilim phase)
• Editor / IDE
  NetBeans (good for a beginner)
• General tools/utilities
  (Almost everything is in NetBeans... go for it later)
• Directed (special purpose) tools/utilities
  (Almost everything is in NetBeans... go for it later)
• Testing and QA tools/utilities/techniques
  JUNIT and use FireBug (Do manual testing first)
• Reference material (both on- & off-line)
  HeadFirst Series on JSP, JavaScript, etc.
  SCRIBD (online)