Oct 17, 2002
J2EE Tutorials

I had a terrific chest & shoulders workout late last night. How do I know? I can't move my arms. I've been walking around like a penguin all day long.

MacCentral: Macworld Expo moves to Boston; Apple will not go.

JUnitEE 1.5.1 released.

Linux Journal Announces Winners of 8th Annual Readers' Choice Awards.

In response to Mike's reader question, here's a list of the few J2EE tutorials I've bookmarked over the years.

• The J2EE Tutorial (2002)
• Developing Enterprise Applications Using the J2EE Platform (2002)
• Hands-on Java Data Objects (2002)
• Using the CMP Model in the EJB 2.0 Specification for Web Services (2002)
• Introduction to container-managed persistence and relationships (2001-2002)
  Part 1, 2, 3 and 4
• Enterprise JavaBeans fundamentals (2001)
• Introducing the Java Message Service (2001)
• Getting Started on Developing Web Services (2001)
• A Nine-Step Process for Deriving Infrastructure Architecture from a J2EE Technology Application Architecture (2001)
• Scaling J2EE Technology Applications Based on Application Infrastructure Techniques (2001)
  Part 1, 2, 3, and 4
• JavaBeans 101 (2000-2001)
  Part I, II and III
• Enterprise JavaBeans Technology Fundamentals Short Course (2000)
• Writing Enterprise Applications with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (2000)
• Enterprise JavaBeans Tutorial (1999)
• Introduction to the JavaBeans API (1999)
• JavaBeans Short Course (1997)

There's some pretty old stuff in there, but I often glance at outdated tutorials prior to digging into the latest implementation. I feel it gives me a better understanding as to why things evolved the way they did.

Russ: Best of Breed. I like the idea a lot! We'd need a portal that is more organized than jGuru, less commercial than TSS and as clean as iSavvix.

Aguilera video offends Thailand. No kidding. I've got a title for her new album, Skankville.

Microsoft beta test site hacked. Security? We've heard of it...

CamWorld: “Are you as confused as I am about the different cell phone technologies between Europe, Asia and the America?”

U.S. Embassy to Dmitry Sklyarov: Access denied. Nothing more than bureaucratic BS.

O'Reilly offers Learning Cocoa with Objective-C. I wonder if Learning Cocoa in Java is going to be updated.

Just found out about Google Zeitgeist. Pretty kewl.

Big Blue Busting to Break Out WebSphere V5.

Andersen fined $500,000. A slap on the wrist. If it wasn't so pathetic it would almost be laughable.

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