Is there any chance of getting this course put online so that others outside
of Maryland can benefit? It sounds like you've built something quite unique
as a tutorial that teaches people the basics of servlets, XML/XSLT, EJBs
etc?
(I help run OrionSupport and we'd be happy to put it up / host it there)
It would serve as a nice compliment to the jollem.com tutorials.
-mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Van
> Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:17 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group
>
>
> To Orion and the people who offer support for this product:
>
> THANK YOU!
>
> My name is Michael Van Geertruy and I am the founder and CEO of the
> Annapolis MD Java User Group, JUGerNaut (501-c-4). For the last 15 weeks
> I've been teaching a course in this user group called "Java and the
> Internet", using the OrionServer as a teaching platform. That is, each
> participant in the course was required to download a version of Orion at
> home, and then use OrionServer for thier work in the course.
>
> I chose Orion Server for a number of reasons. Most notably:
> * It is free for use as a development environment.
> * It is a TRUE implementation of the J2EE platform.
> * Its CPU footprint is very small.
> * It has a robust implementation of servlets.
> * It has easy to understand, XML-based configuration files.
> * It contains xalen and xerces, which allowed us to touch on XSLT's.
>
> On behalf of the JUGerNaut organization, I would like to thank you for
> offering this tool for use in our development environment. Without it, we
> would not have been able to offer this training for FREE (the participants
> paid no money to attend the course). Indeed, many of the participants had
> prior experience programming EJB's and commented on how superior your
> product implements the J2EE when compared to Sybase, Oracle, and
> BEA-Weblogic.
>
> Oral course surveys revealed that the participants in the course felt more
> secure with the Java technologies of servlets, JSP's, CMP, and BMP using a
> home-grown database-connection-pooling bean. Additionally, this course
> produced an EJB that will be used by a local charity organization (saving
> them thousands of dollars in development costs). Without Orion
> Server, the
> quality of training that we gave and the direct impact this program had on
> our community would never have happened.
>
> By offering this training for free to all participants, and by
> training them
> using Orion Server, we are growing EJB specialists in Maryland who are
> partial to using Orion Server. This translates to experienced engineers
> expressing an affinity for Orion Server in the workplace over other
> competing technologies. I sincerely thank you and your organization for
> providing us this invaluable resource.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Michael L. Van
> CEO, JUGerNaut
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> PS. We are holding a graduation ceremony for this course and others on
> March 14, 2001. After the ceremony, we are offering open enrollment into
> JUGerNaut (free) and thus, to a slew of courses we will be
> offering (free to
> all participants). They are:
> Java Programmer Level Certification (13 - 22 weeks)
> Java Developer Level Certification (16 weeks)
> Java Architect Level Certification (depending on demand)
> J2ME (the vm used on embedded systems)
> Java Security API (14 weeks)
> All courses use peer instruction (the students use books and a syllabus to
> guide them as they study the topics together) and all courses are free to
> partipants. Additionally, we are rolling out a new legal-referral plan to
> all members that will help to ensure they will never be "stiffed" on a
> contract again. Please contact me for more information.
>
>
>
