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January Issue, 2008

 

Dear Readers,

Happy New Year from Web Age. We are starting the new year with some exciting new course releases including the launch of our Web 2.0 curriculum, additions to our Spring classes and updates to our Java curriculum.

What's Happening? Breaking News:


Service Oriented Architecture continues to grow and mature as does our curriculum in this space. This month, our Director of SOA, Kyle Gabhart is invited to speak at the Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in San Francisco from January 28 - 30th, 2008. Please click here for more details: http://www.opengroup.org/sf2008/program.htm

IBM Impact 2008 conference is slated to be one of the most interesting and diverse SOA conferences this year. Taking place in Las Vegas from April 6-April 11 it promises a wide variety of themes and presenters and features both a business and a technical track. https://www-306.ibm.com/software/websphere/events/impact2008/ . For more information on Web Age's participation, please see "Come and Meet Us" on page 2.

Spring Framework v2.5 is now released. Web Age is updating our curriculum to reflect this new release and welcomes feedback from all our clients regarding what they would like to see in that class. One of the most notable features is full support for Java SE 6 and Java EE 5.  By far some of the biggest changes with the new release involve the expanded support of a number of Java annotations.  For more information about the new version of Spring: http://www.infoq.com/articles/spring-2.5-part-1

Web 2.0 - We are pleased to announce the release of WA1594 Web 2.0 for Developers and
WA1592 Web 2.0 Executive Overview. With these two courses we now offer a full suite of classes to meet your Web 2.0 training needs.

On the request of many clients we also released the class Sharepoint 2007 for Developers. Please call us for more details.

Web Age SOA Director, Kyle Gabhart is a frequent featured speaker conferences to see his full presentation on "A Little SOA Goes a Long Way" please visit: http://www2.sys-con.com/webinararchive.cfm?pid=wc_soa7w_d1_s3_t1_webage&registered=on

Complimentary Webinars: Let Web Age Solutions provide your organization with a complementary Webinar covering topics such as SOA, Web 2.0, etc. Call or email for details.

Upcoming Public Classes

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Architects 

- Sacramento, CA - Feb 11 - Feb 15, 2008

WA1470 Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for Managers

-Parsippany, NJ - March 25-27

To register, please call 1-877-517-6540 or visit our website for all of our public classes.

Come and meet us!

  • Stuart Smith, Web Age Application Server and Portal Administration Lead, will be presenting "A New Boss in Town" at theIBM Impact 2008 conference in Las Vegas from April 6-April. With the certification of Java EE 5 compatibility, WebSphere Community Edition v2.0 has emerged as the new "best of breed" option in the free-to-use application server market.  Several features of WAS-CE provide significant value when compared to the JBoss Application Server.  This session will demonstrate some of these differentiating features so that developers and administrators can properly leverage them to simplify application development, deployment, and administration.
  • Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference January 28 - 30th, 2008 in San Francisco. http://www.opengroup.org/sf2008/program.htm
  • 3rd annual Web Services Security and SOA Conference & Expo May 12-14th, 2008 in Baltimore
  • SOA World 2008 East in New York in June.

Highlighted New Releases:

WA1563 Developing J2EE Applications Using Spring Framework v2.0 and RAD 7.0

Web Age is pleased to announce the release of WA1563, Spring 2.0 on Rational Application Developer (RAD) v7.0.  This course covers many of the enhancements that were added with Spring 2.0 and uses the latest version of RAD (v7.0).  Even if you currently use RAD v6.0 you will find this course useful. 

WA1550 Servlets & JSP Development with Rational Application Developer 7.0

This class has been completely updated. Enhancements include:

  • Uses Java 5 syntax wherever possible.
  • Custom tag development chapter and labs have been updated.
  • JSTL and JSP EL chapter and lab added
  • JSF chapter and lab added

New Developments: Web 2.0

Web 2.0 holds tremendous potential for enterprises of all shapes and sizes. The network has evolved from being a mere conduit for exchanging files, into a full-fledged ecosystem that is capable of facilitating collaboration and innovation. Web Age now offers 4 Web 2.0 classes:

WA1607 Overview of Web 2.0 for Developers
WA1593 Web 2.0 for the Business Users
WA1594 Web 2.0 for Developers
WA1592 Web 2.0 Executive Overview

Our most popular SOA Classes in December:

Web Age's most Requested Classes in December:

What's in the Pipeline?

Web Age already offers our SOA training on the Microsoft, IBM and Oracle platforms; we are pleased to announce that as of February 2008 we will also be offering our complete curriculum on the BEA AquaLogic Platform. For further details please click on the outlines below:

WA1597 Mastering Service Oriented Analysis and Design (BEA Aqualogic Edition)
WA1595 Service Oriented Architecture for Architects (BEA Aqualogic Edition)
WA1596 SOA Immersion Bootcamp (BEA Aqualogic Edition)

Other new releases:

What are we reading this month?