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While I wandered, head down, among the detritus of the post dot--com era, a new world order was forming. When I looked up, I found the technical world rallying under a new banner--Web services. Savior or hype? I had to know. What better place to learn than the world's largest Web services event? So off I went to SYS-CON's Web Services Edge 2002 East--International Web Services Conference & Expo. While this was also the JDJEdge and XML Edge Expos, the main thrust was Web services. The keynotes all centered on Web services and most of the Java and XML seminars also had a Web services tilt.
In addition to an expo floor with dozens of vendors offering products and services either supporting Web services or claiming actually to enable them there were 60 hour-long seminars divided among five tracks--Java, Web Services, XML, IT Strategy, and .NET. On top of all this, Sun ran six day-long courses from their Java University Program.
Monday was dedicated solely to Java University. I took the "Web Component Developer: Certification Fast Path" course about servlet and JSP technology. Any code-level course where you don't get to write code is at a disadvantage. But, for what it was, I found the course very useful. Its stated goal was to cover the material that's required on the certification exam and give pointers for further study. It met this goal admirably, and clarified, for me, a number of issues I was unclear on in these technologies.
Among the technologies that had passed me by was XML. Sure, I've dabbled in it here and there, and edited my deployment descriptor files, but I never did anything meaty with it. So Tuesday found me in the daylong "Developing Solutions Using Java Technology and XML" course, presented by Todd Greanier of Compass Technologies. This course was fantastic. It started with a very thorough XML primer, which was exactly what I needed. Then it detailed which Java technologies are available for use with XML. Overall, I was very impressed with this course and its presentation.
The trade-off for taking this XML course was that I missed the first day of the expo,...
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