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JSP, Servlets, Struts, JSF, Ajax, GWT, Java 5 & Java 6 Programming

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Looking for short hands-on training classes on servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), Jakarta Struts, JSF (JavaServer Faces), Ajax, or Java 5 programming taught at your company by Marty Hall? If you have a group of at least eight interested developers (10 for courses outside the US or Canada), contact Marty to arrange a course at your location. Distinctive features of Marty's training:

Experienced instructor who can answer tough questions and show best practices.

With the big training vendors, you don't even know the instructor's name before the class begins, much less their credentials. Marty is an experienced real-world developer, award-winning instructor, conference speaker on servlets and JSP (including five times at JavaOne), and author of five popular J2EE books from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. Core Servlets & JavaServer Pages is the most popular servlet and JSP book internationally, with translations in Bulgarian, Chinese (both traditional and simplified script), Czech, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian and Spanish. Marty also teaches in the Johns Hopkins University part-time graduate program in Computer Science, where he directs the Java and Web-related concentration area. Click here for more details.

Well-tested courses.

Marty has taught J2EE training courses in Canada, Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Philippines, and dozens of US venues. Clients for on-site Java courses include the NY Stock Exchange (SIAC), State Farm Insurance, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Lexmark International, TransCanada Pipelines, Raytheon, Learjet, Los Alamos National Labs, Genomica, the U.S. Navy, General Dynamics, Banco Popular, Titan Corporation, the University of Michigan, Context Integration, the University of Utah Hospital, ESI, SAIC, NSA, CIA, and many others. Click here for a longer list.

No using your developers as guinea pigs!

Course materials developed by the instructor.

Marty personally developed all of his own materials, much of it based on his best-selling books. They thoroughly cover the basics, introduce advanced topics, include many meaty code examples, and show plenty of live running applications. They also discuss best practices, design strategies, and efficiency issues.

Most of the big training vendors hire someone to create the course materials, then bring in some inexperienced flunky to regurgitate them to the class.

A variety of complementary course offerings.

Marty personally teaches the following courses (click for detailed course descriptions):

In addition, Marty reviews/edits courses taught by colleagues at ICCI, the parent company of coreservlets.com. These courses are developed by experts who work daily with the technologies, and the materials are thoroughly reviewed by Marty. Course topics include:

  • Spring.
  • Hibernate.
  • EJB 3
  • Ruby/Rails
  • Email for details.

Customizable content.

Want a servlet and JSP class, but need some review of basic Java first? No problem. Want to move extra fast because your developers are experienced? Piece of cake. Need to combine some servlet and JSP topics with thorough coverage of Struts or JSF? Just say the word. Want an Ajax and GWT course, but first need a crash course on JavaScript syntax, first-class functions, and the DOM? Simply let us know.

Every onsite course is fully customized to the needs and backgrounds of your developers.

Competitive prices.

Marty's public courses are typically at least 10% cheaper than the canned courses from the big training vendors. And his courses include a textbook, a bound student notebook, exercises, exercise solutions, and all necessary software (for onsite courses).

Onsite courses at your location are even cheaper, since there are no venue rental costs. Plus, your developers don't have to pay travel costs.

CEU's and Offerings via Educational Institutions.

Through a cooperative agreement with aacc.edu, we have two extra options for our onsite courses:

  • Ceontinuing Education Units (CEUs). If you need CEU's for your training, this can be arranged! Contact Marty for details.
  • Accredited Educational Institution. With some organizations, courses can be paid through tuition reimbursement plans only if the courses are taught by an accredited college. Most coreservlets.com courses can be taught through Anne Arundel Community College (aacc.edu). First contact Marty and arrange a specific course curriculum. Then, we propose this course to aacc.edu for review. If they approve, then the customer contracts directly with aacc.edu for the course, but the course is still taught onsite at your organization by Marty Hall, and the course does not change in any way. Since Marty's courses focus on specialized Java EE and Ajax development, and since Marty teaches similar topics in his courses in the Johns Hopkins part-time graduate program in computer science, getting approval by aacc.edu is virtually guaranteed. There is some extra cost and paperwork involved in this option, so it is best reserved only for organizations that need CEU's or where it is important that the offering come directly from an accredited college.

Unconditional guarantee.

If you are not completely satisfied with the course, we will refund the full cost. No questions asked.

Contact the course instructor at hall@coreservlets.com for more details and to arrange an onsite training class.