Mike,
Thank you for your response. As you said, this course is unique. However,
the nature of the course is not in the printed material, rather in the
collaboration of software engineers. For example, on week 7, the subject of
servlet data-base connection pooling is introduced. However, the
participants get the suggested reading material for that subject (Wrox'
Advanced Java Server Programming, non-EJB version), and do the tutorials in
that book. For the XSL/XSLT portion (week 12), the subject and suggested
reading are introduced, but the learning happens in the assignment and
peer-discussion.
This isn't different than any other course, but because of the reliance of
copywritten materials and in-depth peer-discussion, it wouldn't fit well
with the excellent tutorials on the Jollem site. Instead, it compliments
the existing tutorials by offering an educational roadmap in the syllabus,
and the structure of deadlines and assignments.
Michael Van
CEO, JUGerNaut
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Cannon-Brookes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: RE: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
