How to implement a project in Java?

Question

Java

Hello. I am a computer science student and started learning Java on my own about half a year ago. I read books, watched video tutorials, wrote some code. Now I want to make my own small project, while studying the necessary technologies in parallel.
Essence: A web application for students and schoolchildren, where participants unite in groups. Features: general chat, news, section "Homework" (the head of the group publishes assignments in subjects), etc.
Interested in what you need to learn for this, what features / technologies of the Java language can be used.
Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Answer 1

Learn Spring and Hibernate is the foundation of almost all Java web applications.

Answer 2

the project is knee-length so you can not learn anything and write as is

Answer 3

usually on the contrary, they first write technologies, and then they think what language is suitable here.

Answer 4

I recommend reading this book and doing your own project at the same time. It is better to do the project on spring boot - it greatly simplifies life.

Answer 5

I'll join the top answer, HTML/CSS is important.
But if you still need specific advice, then for the web I recommend trying JSF (there are a lot of examples on mkyong.com). To work with the database, you can use both the simplest JDBC and Hibernate.