Version 5 of Java SE and Java EE has been a giant step to Java development. These versions introduce new concepts tools and features that changes the way we develop software using Java. One of the major changes in Java EE version 5 was a massive refactoring of the EJB specification to adapt lessons learned from the mistakes done is former versions.

This course will shortly introduce all changes in version 5 of Java EE and Java SE and delve into detailed learning of the EJB 3 specification.

Spring is one of the most popular Java frameworks today. Unlike Java EE, Spring works well with any Java application from a simple applet to a sophisticated enterprise application, and increases development productivity, code maintainability and extensibility, while improving code testability and application quality.

Spring is a layered framework that contains a complete lightweight container as its core and many additional packages that can flexibly integrate into Spring and extend its functionality.

This course teaches Spring's philosophy, focuses on the internals of the Spring engine and covers some of the most popular additional packages that extend the framework. The course includes comprehensive exercises that ensure participants gain all the information and hands-on needed to get familiar with the framework and apply it successfully in their projects.

At the inception of Web Services, the buzz was about its simplicity and interoperability.

Nowadays, most organizations face great complexity with regards to Web Services implementations.

The course provides a comprehensive view of the Web Services world and its standards and practices, to allow developers to create interoperable, simple and maintainable Web Services.

The JBoss Application Server is one of the leading application servers in the market.

It is open-sourced and offers many services including but not limited to: security, clustering, messaging, transactions, persistence, web services.

The course covers the architecture of the JBoss Application Server, its main components, configuration and trouble-shooting.

The course is based on JBoss Application Server v5.

Hibernate has become one of the most successful open source projects that roam the Java planet. It is used as the persistence layer on many JSE and JEE (and .NET) projects and has proved itself a successful tool for different requirements. Nevertheless, it can be a bit risky if one does not understand the implications of using it.

The ultimate hibernate course is aimed at diving into the bits and bytes of hibernating, dealing with advanced issues and looking under the hood of this great tool.

Most web applications use HTML to implement the presentation part. HTML is a simple and powerful language in which tables, lists, images and links can be easily created and displayed on the web page.

The course introduces JavaScript, the language of the browser, that enables dynamic web sites and rich UI.

The course will also provide an introduction to the famous AJAX technology that aids us in building Rich Internet Applications (RIA).

Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) is a programming approach that provides the ability to achieve modularization for crosscutting concerns, i.e., logic that applies to many parts of the application, in a single place and to have that logic applied across the application automatically.

By using AOP, the developer can create highly maintainable and extensible modules and produce a code that is more readable and reusable.

AspectJ is the most popular AOP language/platform for Java and provides a powerful compile-time and load-time solution for building AOP-based logic and adding it to an application.

The course includes many examples and hands-on exercises by means of which the material is demonstrated and practiced.

Maven is a project management tool. Maven manages the build process, SCM, testing, reporting, distribution and documentation of your projects.

Maven brings best practices and design patterns into your project management eco-system.

The course includes many examples and hands-on exercises by means of which the material is demonstrated and practiced.

Ever got tired of shell-based build-scripts (e.g. make)?

Ant is de-facto the Java build standard.

This seminar will introduce the basics of Ant and then will cover the most important Ant tasks.

Continuous Integration (CI) is an important part of any Agile methodology because it can help developers discover their bugs sooner.

Every project can benefit from Continuous Integration which leads to greater productivity, early bug detection and better teamwork due to immediate discovery of integration bugs.

CruiseControl is a popular CI framework. It enables you to create an automated build system. CruiseControl is an open-source, easy to use and mature solution. It contains a lot of built-in plugins that provides you with Source Control Management integration, mail notifications, unit-tests and many more useful features.

By now Test Driven Development (TDD) is a well known and appreciated practice exercised by many development teams around the globe.

Unlike what the name suggests, TDD is not a testing technique but a development technique that results in cleaner high quality code. Implementing effective and useful TDD is a complicated task that requires developers to have both discipline and familiarity with a set of test automation tools.

This course explains the TDD methodology, introduces a recommended set of open-source testing tools and includes hands-on exercises (about 50% of the course's duration) to practice the tools.