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 worlds largest web services event? so off i went to sys-cons 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.
the 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 dont 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 thats 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, ive 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 day-long "developing
solutions using java technology and xml" course, presented by todd greanier
of compass technolog... 下一页