Help: Learning Java.  

There are many good books that are published by the Sun Microsystem Press of the Sun Microsystems, the company which brought out the language, that give a clear picture of the language. Also there are books that help you prepare for the Java Certification exam by the same publishers. The Java How To Programme by Deitel and Deitel is also a good one for a novice. You need an understanding of the C and C++ languages inorder to start smoothily.

A web server is a computer that stores the web pages and send them to the web browsers that is present in our PC's. First a request is made by the web browser to the web server get a web page after the web browser has identified the server for the particular website. If the page is there in the server, the programmes that is present in the server will find it and will sendit to the web browser. It is similar to a server-client relation. The website mylot is hosted by a web server.

Application servers on the other hand are the computers that do specific tasks. They often are very fast and can serve many number of clients at the same time. They are generally found in offices and research centers.

Java is my favourite language as I had a fluency for it. You can find many ebooks too. You can even learn java from sun websites too. Start from the basics & then moce on to the advance topics. But make sure to you make yourself good at the basics because it will help you in understanding the advanced much concepts easier. Use sites like w3schools.com. You can learn from there as well as try out practically too. You can just edit the examples out there & execute it to see how the code works. w3schools is one of the best site I have ever come across.
Then & there code & practice that will make you understand the concepts much easier. Just google for concepts you will get millions of guidance on it. IF you have anymore doubts I will help you up. :)

Well your first sentence is no longer valid. Flash has become a better option for web programmers. But as for me I prefer JAVA over flash.Java The reason being I don't know Flash.
Now that you want to learn JAVA the best book to learn it is Herbert Sheildt's Java.
You can also find online tutorials on http://www[DOT]w3schools[DOT]com.

There are many books but i like 'idiots - The complete guide to Java'

There are ofcourse so many websites to learn java. I would recommend joining java forum where people send program requirements and answers to these so these will be very much helpful in leaning java

Yes java is the best web there are many books but i like one book i have learnt java from that book it will be in orange colour and i don't remember the name correctly.
You have to practice JAVA more then only you will become perfect in JAVA. Just reading is not enough for JAVA the more you practise on the computer then you will learn it more.