I got cactus working with strutstest. Oh wow.... what a pain in the ass.
I met Rawn for two hours today.
JavaOne talk due May 15th (EJB CMP CMR and XDoclet.... a lot of material already done. Just need to tighten up)
Advanced Struts and J2EE development with Ant and XDoclet talk due by May 15th (May 30 - June 1st) (A lot of material for J2EE with Ant and XDoclet done; advanced struts not done but needed for course)
J2EE development with Ant and XDoclet due June 1st speaking 6/26/03 for TheServerSide.com
I need to tighten the Ant/XDoclet discussion.
J2EE development with XDoclet and Ant (6/26/03)
Covers developing J2EE components with XDoclet. XDoclet can drastically speed J2EE development by generating component support files by embedding meta data in what looks like JavaDoc tags of the component implementation. Demonstrates developing Custom Tags, Entity Beans, Session Beans, and Struts Actions with the assistance of XDoclet combined with Ant.
Advanced Struts
These are advanced topics that assumes previous knowledge of Struts.
? Uploading files with Struts Forms
? Defining your own custom tags using Struts
? Generating Struts config with XDoclet and Ant
? Using BeanUtils, and PropertyUtils
? Using Velocity instead of JSP for views
? Using JSTL instead of Struts tags for views
? Unit testing Struts Actions with Cactus
? Unit testing Struts based Custom Tags with Cactus
I talked to Donald and Willie about doing a webinar on J2EE performance for IBM.
I am not sure what my level on involvment will be.
It seems like we should get involved as a company.
The two biggest tasks I need to finish today is putting together an Advanced J2EE patterns course and sending out a fix to our existing Advanced J2EE patterns course that we license.
In addition, I want to do some WebShpere research, and then put together some of the outlines I suggested to Kim.
1) 3 Day Unit testing Java and J2EE applications (JUnit, Cactus, HttpUnit)
2) 5 Day Applying Continous Integration to J2EE Development(Ant, XDoclet, Maven, AntHill, Cactus)
3) 5 Day Performance Tunning and Strategies for WebSphere 5 (highest priority!)
4) 5 Day Performance Tunning and Strategies for WebLogic 8
5) 5 Day Advanced J2EE Patterns
6) 5 Day Overview of J2EE Pattern Based Development(Servlets/JSP, Custom Tags, Struts, EJB CMP/CMR, MDB, Sesson, Entity, JMS) [this is like the course i am teaching]
7) 3 Day Custom Tag Development (TagLibs) (Custom Tags, JSTL and more)
8) 3 Day Web Services with Apache Axis
9) 3 Day J2EE Persistent Tier Development (EJB CMP/CMR, JDO, Hibernate, and Castor)
10) 3 Day Principles and Practices of Effective Developers (UP, XP, Iterative development, UML, Java Coding conventions)
I sent out the updates to the advanced J2EE course. I fixed the CMP CMR example last week when I taught the course. I sent out a strawman outline for the J2EE advanced patterns course. I'd like to work on the outline some more. I want to split it up into three tiers: controller, view and model similar to the last course I worked with..... hmmmm.... I need to do some more research. I better talk to Kim and see if this is the hottest thing going.
