Object Innovations' EJB Courses Finalized for J2EE 1.4

January 26, 2004. Object Innovations has completed a comprehensive revision of it's popular one-week course in Enterprise JavaBeans to work with the final release of the J2EE 1.4 SDK. Course software, which already covered EJB 2.1, now builds and deploys to Sun's AppServer 8.0, which has been installed in the J2EE 1.4 bundle as the reference implementation for EJB. Shipments of EJB courses 162, "Introduction to EJB", and 163, "Enterprise JavaBeans", begin immediately.

Will Provost, the course author, has found that the final SDK from Sun is a dramatic improvement over the beta versions released over the last year and a half. "Especially, administration tasks are now entirely scriptable," he said, "and this makes classroom delivery much more predictable and reliable. So much goes into a significant EJB demonstration -- database creation and configuration, message queues, user accounts, not to mention the basic trick of remote deployment. AppServer 8.0 is much better at all of these things, and so classroom exercises can be carried off with a minimum of administrative hassle. That means students can focus on theory and coding practice, while building substantial applications."

Object Innovations has been pursuing a thorough process of finalizing all its J2EE courseware since the 1.4 specifications were released in November. The final step in this process will be a revision of the Web services courses, projected for early February.