JUGerNaut Upcoming Courses in Maryland USA

2001-03-01 Thread Michael Van

We are proud to announce that we'll be holding another
peer-based-instruction group for programmers in the state of Maryland, USA.
If you're interested in joining our organization, please e-mail me.  This
term we'll be focusing on Servlets, JSP's and XSLT's using Cocoon.

If you'd like to start a JUGerNaut group and are not in Maryland, please
contact me for the Syllabus and requirements for being a JUGerNaut group.

Michael Van
CEO, JUGerNaut

PS. Mr. Birchfield, thanks for the database connection pooling bean. I hope
you're doing well.





Re: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group

2001-02-09 Thread Michael Van

Mike,

Thank you for your response.  As you said, this course is unique. However,
the nature of the course is not in the printed material, rather in the
collaboration of software engineers.  For example, on week 7, the subject of
servlet data-base connection pooling is introduced.  However, the
participants get the suggested reading material for that subject (Wrox'
Advanced Java Server Programming, non-EJB version), and do the tutorials in
that book.  For the XSL/XSLT portion (week 12), the subject and suggested
reading are introduced, but the learning happens in the assignment and
peer-discussion.

This isn't different than any other course, but because of the reliance of
copywritten materials and in-depth peer-discussion, it wouldn't fit well
with the excellent tutorials on the Jollem site.  Instead, it compliments
the existing tutorials by offering an educational roadmap in the syllabus,
and the structure of deadlines and assignments.

Michael Van
CEO, JUGerNaut
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


- Original Message -
From: Mike Cannon-Brookes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 1:52 AM
Subject: RE: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group


 Is there any chance of getting this course put online so that others
outside
 of Maryland can benefit? It sounds like you've built something quite
unique
 as a tutorial that teaches people the basics of servlets, XML/XSLT, EJBs
 etc?

 (I help run OrionSupport and we'd be happy to put it up / host it there)

 It would serve as a nice compliment to the jollem.com tutorials.

 -mike

  -Original Message-
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Van
  Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 5:17 PM
  To: Orion-Interest
  Subject: A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group
 
 
  To Orion and the people who offer support for this product:
 
  THANK YOU!
 
  My name is Michael Van Geertruy and I am the founder and CEO of the
  Annapolis MD Java User Group, JUGerNaut (501-c-4).  For the last 15
weeks
  I've been teaching a course in this user group called "Java and the
  Internet", using the OrionServer as a teaching platform.  That is, each
  participant in the course was required to download a version of Orion at
  home, and then use OrionServer for thier work in the course.
 
  I chose Orion Server for a number of reasons.  Most notably:
  * It is free for use as a development environment.
  * It is a TRUE implementation of the J2EE platform.
  * Its CPU footprint is very small.
  * It has a robust implementation of servlets.
  * It has easy to understand, XML-based configuration files.
  * It contains xalen and xerces, which allowed us to touch on XSLT's.
 
  On behalf of the JUGerNaut organization, I would like to thank you for
  offering this tool for use in our development environment.  Without it,
we
  would not have been able to offer this training for FREE (the
participants
  paid no money to attend the course).  Indeed, many of the participants
had
  prior experience programming EJB's and commented on how superior your
  product implements the J2EE when compared to Sybase, Oracle, and
  BEA-Weblogic.
 
  Oral course surveys revealed that the participants in the course felt
more
  secure with the Java technologies of servlets, JSP's, CMP, and BMP using
a
  home-grown database-connection-pooling bean.  Additionally, this course
  produced an EJB that will be used by a local charity organization
(saving
  them thousands of dollars in development costs).  Without Orion
  Server, the
  quality of training that we gave and the direct impact this program had
on
  our community would never have happened.
 
  By offering this training for free to all participants, and by
  training them
  using Orion Server, we are growing EJB specialists in Maryland who are
  partial to using Orion Server. This translates to experienced engineers
  expressing an affinity for Orion Server in the workplace over other
  competing technologies.  I sincerely thank you and your organization for
  providing us this invaluable resource.
 
  Thank you,
 
  Michael L. Van
  CEO, JUGerNaut
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
  PS.  We are holding a graduation ceremony for this course and others on
  March 14, 2001.  After the ceremony, we are offering open enrollment
into
  JUGerNaut (free) and thus, to a slew of courses we will be
  offering (free to
  all participants).  They are:
  Java Programmer Level Certification (13 - 22 weeks)
  Java Developer Level Certification (16 weeks)
  Java Architect Level Certification (depending on demand)
  J2ME (the vm used on embedded systems)
  Java Security API (14 weeks)
  All courses use peer instruction (the students use books and a syllabus
to
  guide them as they study the topics together) and all courses are free
to
  partipants.  Additionally, we are rolling out a new legal-referral plan
to
  all members that will help to ensure they 

A thank you to Orion from the Annapolis Java User Group

2001-02-07 Thread Michael Van

To Orion and the people who offer support for this product:

THANK YOU!

My name is Michael Van Geertruy and I am the founder and CEO of the
Annapolis MD Java User Group, JUGerNaut (501-c-4).  For the last 15 weeks
I've been teaching a course in this user group called "Java and the
Internet", using the OrionServer as a teaching platform.  That is, each
participant in the course was required to download a version of Orion at
home, and then use OrionServer for thier work in the course.

I chose Orion Server for a number of reasons.  Most notably:
* It is free for use as a development environment.
* It is a TRUE implementation of the J2EE platform.
* Its CPU footprint is very small.
* It has a robust implementation of servlets.
* It has easy to understand, XML-based configuration files.
* It contains xalen and xerces, which allowed us to touch on XSLT's.

On behalf of the JUGerNaut organization, I would like to thank you for
offering this tool for use in our development environment.  Without it, we
would not have been able to offer this training for FREE (the participants
paid no money to attend the course).  Indeed, many of the participants had
prior experience programming EJB's and commented on how superior your
product implements the J2EE when compared to Sybase, Oracle, and
BEA-Weblogic.

Oral course surveys revealed that the participants in the course felt more
secure with the Java technologies of servlets, JSP's, CMP, and BMP using a
home-grown database-connection-pooling bean.  Additionally, this course
produced an EJB that will be used by a local charity organization (saving
them thousands of dollars in development costs).  Without Orion Server, the
quality of training that we gave and the direct impact this program had on
our community would never have happened.

By offering this training for free to all participants, and by training them
using Orion Server, we are growing EJB specialists in Maryland who are
partial to using Orion Server. This translates to experienced engineers
expressing an affinity for Orion Server in the workplace over other
competing technologies.  I sincerely thank you and your organization for
providing us this invaluable resource.

Thank you,

Michael L. Van
CEO, JUGerNaut
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

PS.  We are holding a graduation ceremony for this course and others on
March 14, 2001.  After the ceremony, we are offering open enrollment into
JUGerNaut (free) and thus, to a slew of courses we will be offering (free to
all participants).  They are:
Java Programmer Level Certification (13 - 22 weeks)
Java Developer Level Certification (16 weeks)
Java Architect Level Certification (depending on demand)
J2ME (the vm used on embedded systems)
Java Security API (14 weeks)
All courses use peer instruction (the students use books and a syllabus to
guide them as they study the topics together) and all courses are free to
partipants.  Additionally, we are rolling out a new legal-referral plan to
all members that will help to ensure they will never be "stiffed" on a
contract again.  Please contact me for more information.





Re: URGENT! jsp file size limit

2001-01-16 Thread Michael Van

This is just a toss in from a methodology pundit, but if your JSP is over
70K, is there perhaps something you could do better with a class or EJB?
Remember, you CAN mix classes with EJB's.  In the Orion Server course I
teach, I regularly create a bean that does connection pooling as a method to
instruct JNDI.  Of course, the basics of this bean is found in WROX, but it
works pretty well.

Anyway, why not try and take some of that jsp code and put it into a bean?

Michael Van
Found, JUGerNaut Engineering Guild

- Original Message -
From: LouisVoo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: URGENT! jsp file size limit


 what is ur file size?
 may be u can try this
 put % out.flush(); % in somewhere ur jsp file.

 I have a 70kb jsp file run in orion without problem. But I try it in
JRun,
 I need to use the above solution.

 hope this help.



 Regards,

 Louis
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 - Original Message -
 From: "Dan Winfield" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 8:50 AM
 Subject: Re: URGENT! jsp file size limit


  Hi Savotchkin
 
  I saw you emailed this to Orion. I am having a similar problem. Did you
 find
  out what was wrong?
 
  Dan
  - Original Message -
  From: "Savotchkin Egor" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 5:59 AM
  Subject: URGENT! jsp file size limit
 
 
   Hi all!
   Orion seems to have jsp file size limit, when my analog of the
   ScreenDefinitions.jsp from Pet Store grows beyond this limit orion
 issues:
  
   500 Internal Server Error
   Error parsing JSP page /visitor/visitor.html
  
   Error creating jsp-page instance: java.lang.VerifyError: (class:
   __jspPage0_template_jsp, method: _jspService signature:
  
 

(Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRequest;Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletRespo
   nse;)V) Illegal target of jump or branch
  
   Egor Savotchkin