Java EE with Spring and Hibernate

April 26-30 2010, San Francisco CA

May 17-21 2010, JHU Dorsey Center, Elkridge MD

This page describes the public (open enrollment) training courses on Spring and Hibernate/JPA to be held April 26-30 at the Marakana Training Center in San Francisco, CA and May 17-21 at the Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center in Elkridge, MD (co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals program). The entire course is personally developed and taught by experienced Java EE developer and instructor Matt Cherry. No contract instructor teaching someone else's materials!

If you are looking for customized Java EE or Ajax training courses taught on-site at your company, please see this page.

Register Early! Five of coreservlets's previous public short courses were full, so reserve your spot today. Registrations are taken in the order they are received.

Overview

Java EE has made tremendous strides in recent years, but through it all, few technologies have been as influential as Hibernate and Spring. Both these frameworks have changed the playing field, making enterprise level applications simpler, faster, and better designed. This course will expose students to new ways of approaching systems, levering concepts such as Object-Relational Mapping: made popular by Hibernate, and Dependency Injection: which is gaining major traction as the preferred way to design flexible architectures through lightweight containers such as Spring. Learn how these technologies increase developer productivity and promote well thought-out design by providing boilerplate infrastructure support of a system, allowing developers to concentrate on what's really important: the business functionality of their code. Reinforced with real life applications and examples, as well in-class exercises, this class leaves students ready to reap the benefits the moment they leave the classroom.

Coreservlets.com normally runs on-site J2EE and Ajax training courses at customer locations. This is easier administratively, is better for clients since the topics can be customized, and is more cost effective for students since no travel is required. However, due to demand from those who do not have enough students for an on-site course, coreservlets will be running public (open enrollment) Spring and Hibernate training courses April 26-30 in San Francisco CA and May 17-21 in Elkridge MD.

The course is taught by experienced Java EE developer and instructor Matt Cherry.

Venues

The west coast version of the course will be held at the Marakana Training Center in San Francisco, California. This is a modern, comfortable venue with separate computers for each student, fast internet connections, and with coffee, snacks, and meals included. For northern California residents, the location is easily accessible by driving (free parking!) or mass transit. For out-of-town students, there are many nearby hotels and we provide free taxi vouchers for going between the hotel and the training center.

The east coast version of the course will be held at the Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center in Elkridge, Maryland. This is also a modern, comfortable venue with separate computers for each student, fast internet connections, and with coffee, snacks, and meals included. For Maryland residents, the location is centrally located 5 minutes from BWI airport and has plenty of free parking. For out-of-town students, there are many hotels within 1 mile.

Registration

The five-day course costs $2395 per student and includes an extensive course notebook, a commercial textbook, exercises, exercise solutions, breakfast, snacks, and lunch. Compare this price to courses from Sun, Learning Tree, GlobalKnowledge, and Oracle University that cost around $2400 for four-day courses and $3000 for five-day courses that do not include textbooks or meals. Besides, those courses almost always use an unknown instructor who did not develop the course materials and often lacks significant real-world development experience.

To register, fill out and send in the course registration form. Space is limited: five previous offerings of coreservlets.com courses were full. Bonus: Register at least a week in advance and get a $50 gift certificate from amazon.com.

Prerequisites

The course consists of an approximately equal mixture of lecture and hands-on lab time. It assumes that all students have moderate to strong Java skills; it is not a course for newcomers to Java. It does not assume any previous exposure to Spring, Hibernate, or JPA.

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