Public (Open Enrollment) Training Courses

From Marty Hall and coreservlets.com

In general, onsite Java EE training courses are better than public ones. In particular:

• The onsite courses are cheaper (no venue to rent).
• The onsite courses are more convenient (you don't have to travel).
• The onsite courses are more effective (the topics and pace can be customized to suit your needs and background).
• For clients in the Baltimore/Washington area, the onsite courses have a more flexible schedule (e.g., we can meet one or two days or afternoons per week instead of on N consecutive days).

However, many clients simply do not have enough developers for an onsite course, so we periodically offer open enrollment courses as well. These courses still feature Marty's lively and entertaining presentation style, lots of hands-on exercises, coverage of best practices, up to date topics and examples, and the chance to ask as many hard questions as you would like. And we still offer the same guarantee: if you are not completely satisfied with the course, we will refund the full cost.

The following summarizes the schedule for the public (open enrollment) training courses for the next year. Onsite courses, however, can be arranged at your organization at any mutually agreeable time.

Java 6 Programming: A Crash Course

October 5-9, 2009
Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center, Elkridge, Maryland (5 minutes from BWI airport)

Fast general introduction to Java programming aimed at developer with significant previous experience in some programming language, preferably C, C++, C# (or a little bit of previous Java exposure). Not a course for first-time programmers.

Covers basic syntax, loops, conditional statements, OOP, generics, varargs, autoboxing, applets, AWT, Swing, Java 2D, multithreaded programming, network programming, XML parsing, and more. New: course now covers serialization!

For registration and more information, see the Java 6 training course page.

Java EE Development with Spring and Hibernate

October 12-16, 2009
Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center, Elkridge, Maryland (5 minutes from BWI airport)

Practical, hands-on training on Spring and Hibernate programming. Aimed at developers with moderate to significant previous Java experience but little or no experience with Spring, Hibernate, or JPA.

The Spring section of the course covers dependency injection, aspect-oriented programming, transaction management, job scheduling, testing. The Hibernate section covers codeless configuration, collection mappings, inheritance and component relationships, object lifecycles, transaction management, and much more. New: course now covers automatic object versioning and multi-level caching!

For registration and more information, see the Spring and Hibernate/JPA training course page.

Web Application Development with Servlets and JSP

October 19-23, 2009
Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center, Elkridge, Maryland (5 minutes from BWI airport)

Fast-moving, hands-on training on servlet and JSP programming. Aimed at developers with moderate to significant previous Java experience but little or no experience with servlets and JSP.

Covers form data, HTTP headers, cookies, session tracking, JSP scripting elements, file inclusion, JavaBeans in JSP, the MVC architecture, the JSP expression language, and more. New: course now covers Ajax basics!

For registration and more information, see the Servlet and JSP training course page.

Rich Internet Applications with Ajax

October 26-30, 2009
Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center, Elkridge, Maryland (5 minutes from BWI airport)

Hands-on course on Ajax that stresses the use of Java on the server. Assumes previous experience with servlets and JSP, but does not require experience with JavaScript or Ajax.

Includes a JavaScript crash course, then covers Ajax basics, development and debugging tools, XML and JSON data handling, automatic JSON generation, JSON-RPC, and much more. New: course now covers jQuery, Prototype, and Dojo!

For registration and more information, see the Ajax training course page.

Programming with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.6

November 2-3, 2009
Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center, Elkridge, Maryland (5 minutes from BWI airport)

Two-day, fast-moving, practical introduction to developing apps with GWT. Assumes previous experience with servlets and JSP, but does not require experience with JavaScript or Ajax.

Covers GWT pros and cons, setup, project creation, event handling, RPC, widgets, panels, and more. New: course now covers JSNI!

For registration and more information, see the GWT 1.6 training course page.

JSF (JavaServer Faces) and Apache MyFaces

Spring 2010
Location TBD (Maryland)

Practical hands-on training on JSF development. Aimed at developers with moderate to significant previous JSP and servlet experience, but little or no exposure to JSF.

Covers page navigation, managed beans, the JSF expression language, event handling, internationalization, data tables, using the MyFaces custom components (Tomahawk), Ajax4jsf, JSTL, and much more. New: Course now covers facelets!

For registration and more information, see the JSF training course page.