Date:

Sunday, June 4th
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructor:

Faiz Arni
President
Inferdata Corporation

Who Should Attend:

Skilled Java^TM technology-based developers, enterprise system programmers and analysts, architects and ISVs developing or interested in developing enterprise level applications.

Prerequisites:

Hands-on Java programming language experience required. Understanding of object-oriented programming, distributed computing, and component technology would be helpful.

Overview:

This course provides a solid overview of the basic architecture behind the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE^TM) and provides an in-depth examination of the Java technology components encompassed by J2EE technology, including:

• Java Database Connectivity API (JDBC^TM)
• Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI)
• Enterprise JavaBeans^TM architecture (EJB^TM)
• Servlets and JavaServer Pages^TM technology (JSP)

A review of the J2EE architecture is completed with a demonstration of a real-world application with plenty of reusable code.

Benefits:

• Examine and describe the features and benefits of the J2EE architecture
• Define the concepts underlying the various J2EE technologies
• Present Servlets as a server side computing model for web servers
• Present JSP as a means for dynamic of web page generation and a model for server-side scripting
• Examine the environment and kinds of Enterprise JavaBeans technology-based components
• Discuss key concepts in naming and directory services
• Describe how XML is used to encode data to be exchanged in an enterprise wide system
• Describe the JMS API and its usage
• Describe the JavaMail API
• Describe the JTS & JTA APIs
• Review the database connectivity library and the various types of connections
• Apply these technologies using working business solutions code

Date:

Sunday, June 4th
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructors:

Jim Waldo
Lead Jini Technology Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Simon Roberts
Course Developer/Instructor
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Who Should Attend:

Skilled Java^TM technology-based software developers, engineers, programmers, analysts, architects, webmasters and consultants.

Prerequisites:

Hands-on Java programming language experience required. Understanding of object-oriented programming and distributed computing is required.

Overview:

This course provides experienced developers using Java technology with a detailed understanding of how Jini^TM technology creates groups of devices and software components into a single, dynamic distributed system. The course will review the major components of distributed computing using Jini technology, including:

• Spontaneous networking
• Jini technology Federations
• Jini technology System Components
• Remote Method Invocation (Java^TM RMI technology)
• JavaSpaces^TM Technology
• Lookup and Discovery

Benefits:

• Key concepts of Jini technology
• Concepts of spontaneous networking
• How Jini technology delivers spontaneous networking
• How Jini technology allows dynamic communication, sharing and exchange of service between any hardware or software on a network
• About Jini technology Federations
• How Java RMI technology delivers mobility of code
• About Jini technology infrastructure
• About Jini technology's Lookup and Discovery, JavaSpaces technology, and Java RMI technology programming models: Leasing, Transactions, Distributed Events
• How Jini technology's programming models work together to deliver a complete distributed environment

Date:

Sunday, June 4th
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructor:

Steve Fritzinger
Java Technology Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Who Should Attend:

Skilled Java technology-based developers, programmers, and security architects who want to use security mechanisms (protection domains, authentication and authorization) in their applications.

Prerequisites:

Basic familiarity with developing Java technology-based programs, base classes and object-oriented concepts. Good grounding in security concepts helpful.

Overview:

This full-day, code examination of Java technology security teaches the foundations of Java platform security and various additional security mechanisms like:

• Java Authentication and Authorization Services API (JAAS)
• Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Security
• Java Cryptography Extension API (JCE)

This course also examines security issues in an n-tiered environment, describes using and extending the Protection Domain Architecture, and provides detailed programming examples for each technology.

Benefits:

• Understand and apply foundational Java platform security concepts
• Examine architectural security issues in an n-tiered environment
• Understand the Protection Domain architecture
• Extend the Protection Domain architecture to include custom classes and resources
• Use Authentication and Authorization services in an application
• Use Cryptography Extensions to protect data
• Understand the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition declaritive security mechanisms
• Examine detailed programming examples for each technology

Date:

Monday, June 5th
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructors:

Faiz Arni
President
Inferdata Corporation

Sam Patterson
CEO
ComponentSource

Jack Greenfield
CTO & Founder
Inline Software

Who Should Attend:

Skilled developers using Java^TM technology interested in learning to create components based on the Enterprise JavaBeans specification ("EJB^TM Components") and understanding the process and opportunities for their sale.

Prerequisites:

Hands-on Java programming language experience and familiarity with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition components.

Overview:

This 2 Part, full-day session provides both a detailed, code-level lesson on the development of Enterprise JavaBeans technology-based components as well as the opportunities, process, sale and consumption of open market components.

• Part 1:
  A code-level discussion of the technical framework for developing an enterprise application which adheres to the EJB 1.1 specification. Attendees will explore writing a session bean, transactions, exceptions and writing an entity bean.

• Part 2:
  An intense discussion focusing on the opportunities and process for the development and sale of enterprise components. Topics covered will help attendees create component-based products quickly and effectively and launch them successfully into the fast growing component open market.

Benefits:

• Describe the framework for developing an enterprise application which adheres to the EJB 1.1 specification
• Describe EJB technology
• List and describe the enterprise application programming interfaces (APIs) for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition
• Design Session Beans
• Design Entity Beans
• Discuss transactions and exceptions
• Identify the software component market size
• Identify which vertical domains exhibit the greatest demand for commercial software components
• Identify opportunities to supply software components on the open market
• Learn how J2EE^TM technology-based components are produced and packaged for mass distribution

Date:

Monday, June 5th
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructors:

Kelby Zorgdrager
Lead Jiro Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Jay Miller
Lead Jiro Engineer
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Who Should Attend:

Skilled Java^TM technology-based software developers, distributed solutions developers and engineers, Java technology architects.

Prerequisites:

Hands-on Java programming language experience required. Understanding of Jini technology, RMI, and distributed computing is helpful.

Overview:

This full-day code-level discussion provides experienced developers a technical overview of Jiro technology. This course examines how Jiro technology, in cooperation with Jini technology, enables the infrastructure for the creation of distributed, dynamic management solutions. Through the use of multiple code examples, this course will examine why Jiro technology was created, how it is being used today, the Jiro technology security model, and the Jiro technology Base Services, including:

• Controller and Log Service
• Lookup and Scheduler Service
• Transaction and Event Service

Benefits:

• Define key concepts of Jiro technology
• Introduce Jiro technology solution architectures
• Outline Jiro technologies use of Jini^TM technology and RMI
• Examine Jiro technology Dynamic Services Model
• Discuss Jiro technology Base Services: Controller, Log, Lookup, and Scheduler
• Discuss Jiro technology Transaction and Event services
• Introduce Jiro technology security service/model
• Understand current and future uses of Jiro technology

Date:

Monday, June 5th
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructor:

Peter Haggar
Senior Software Engineer
IBM Corporation

Who Should Attend:

Skilled Java technology-based developers, engineers and programmers interested in developing more efficient and optimized code.

Prerequisites:

Experience with developing Java technology solutions required.

Overview:

This full-day session is an intensive exploration of the most important performance issues of code development using the Java programming language. The session will explore numerous areas where performance problems may be encountered and ways to minimize - and in some cases - eliminate them. This session will examine:

• Code design and generation
• Compilers and runtime optimization
• Bytecodes and JITs
• Detailed code examples of optimization techniques
• Tools for improving the performance of your code

Benefits:

• Learn how to maximize the performance of Java technology code
• Learn the role of bytecode and its impact on performance
• Understand the bytecode, how to generate it, and utilize coding techniques to generate faster and smaller bytecode
• Identify areas of code which are performance bottlenecks and be able to fix them
• Understand the performance impact and ways to minimize the costs of common techniques you may be using, including: object creation and initialization, string concatenation, and synchronization
• Learn the pros and cons of runtime optimization strategies like JITs and Java HotSpot technology

Date:

Monday, June 5th
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructors:

Roger Riggs
Senior Staff Engineer, MIDP
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Joe Chen
Staff Engineer, Java Card Technology
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Tony Hillman
Engineering Manager, User Interface
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Who Should Attend:

Skilled Java^TM technology-based developers, wireless application developers, technical managers.

Prerequisites:

Hands-on Java programming experience required, general knowledge of wireless technologies (SIM card, GSM, CDMA, TDMA) helpful.

Overview:

This session will cover the new Java^TM 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME^TM) technologies targeted at resource constrained wireless devices including:

• Mobile Information Device (MID)
• Profile and the Connected Limited Device Configuration (CLDC) for cellular phone and two-way pagers
• Java Card^TM runtime environment for SIM card applications

This session will include an in depth presentation of the different Java APIs, illustrated with source code walk-throughs, a tutorial on application design, a presentation of testing and debugging environments, and case studies of actual J2ME technology-based wireless deployments.

Benefits:

• Learn about the different components of Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition targeted at wireless devices (CLDC, MID Profile, Java Card technology)
• Understand how to develop applications using J2ME wireless APIs
• Learn how to use testing and debugging environments for SIM cards and wireless devices
• Learn how to optimize applications for memory constrained devices
• Participate in wireless application development contest

Dates:

Sunday, June 4th - Day 1 of 2
10:00 am - 6:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Monday, June 5th - Day 2 of 2
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Moscone Convention Center

Instructor:

Philip Heller
President
Heller Associates

Who Should Attend:

Skilled object-oriented programmers/developers, analysts, programming consultants, and experienced developers using Java^TM technology who seek programmer certification.

Prerequisites:

Object-oriented software development experience and Java technology-based development experience required.

Overview:

Certification validates your Java technology skills, boosts your productivity, reaffirms your value to your organization, and increases your career advancement opportunities. Until now, preparing for Java platform certification included a multitude of courses, slow going when you're looking to gain certification quickly.

Through this accelerated training program, two days is all it takes to review the skills and knowledge you'll need to pass the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java^TM Platform Exam. This exam is the cornerstone of the industry-wide jCERT^TM Java platform certification initiative and is offered by Sun, IBM, and Oracle.

This course also covers overall Java programming language knowledge, as well as programming concepts and applet development skills.

Benefits:

• Receive an intensive review of the topics covered on the Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform Exam
• Increase your understanding and knowledge of the Java programming language
• Prepare for the Exam by reviewing practice tests and questions
• Increase your probability of passing the Programmer Exam
• Gain a strong understanding of Java technology fundamentals
• Receive the insight and guidance of the expert who wrote the book on preparing for the exams!
• Testing Voucher distributed at the end of the class ($150.00 value)