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Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
- Thomas Edison

In the software industry standing still is like falling into a hole; you may not totally disappear but you'll have to dig yourself out. Constantly upgrading your skill set as a software developer is a requirement, not an option. Southern Polytechnic State University's Continuing Education programs offer a wide variety of classes in many fields. The size of programming classes is limited to a maximum of 10 students to allow student/teacher interaction. I teach Java classes. There are two open enrollment classes which teach the Java programming language and a certificate program which teaches the core technologies, excluding EJBs, of the business platform, J2EE and GWT. The classes are taught as a series of lectures followed by hands-on lab work. For the certificate programs the lab work must be completed and checked by the instructor, me, to receive the certificate.

About Java and Java Technologies
Since its arrival in 1996 Java has consistently proven itself to be the language for web based development. With the introduction Java2 Enterprise Edition, J2EE, Java firmly established itself as as a leader in business development platforms. Combined with Java's write-once-run-anywhere, WORA, paradigm Java freed companies from being tied to a particular hardware platform.

In May, 2006 Google introduced the Google Web Toolkit. The GWT, as its known - the full name is a trifle unwieldy, is used to develop browser independent web based applications with the look and feel of a traditional desktop application. The nice folks at Google have created a toolkit that overcomes the two biggest obstacles in designing browser based applications - cross browser differences and maintaining a gui in multiple languages, usually HTML/JSP and Javascript. With the arrival of GWT the GUI for an entire enterprise can be maintained in a single language, Java. Additionally, the deployable modules for browser based applications created by GWT do not require the JRE to be installed on a client's computer - it's all HTML and JavaScript.

NEWS: In January, 2010 Laura Raines, a reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution interviewed me for an article on Java, Java technologies and Java training available at Southern Polytechnic State University. The article appeared in the the Jobs section of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Sunday, January 31, 2010. You may view the article here.

SPSU Training Courses

Beginning Java A 5 session introduction to programming using Java Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm, 10/23/2010 thru 11/20/2010

Accelerated Java Convert your existing programming language skills to Java, 5 sessions Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm, 12/4/2010 thru 1/22/2010 (doesn’t meet 12/25/10 and 1/08/11)

eBusiness Solutions in Java This certificate program covers XML, JDBC and SQL, JMS, HTML, Servlets, JSP and GWT Tuesday and Thursday, 6 pm to 10 pm, 9/14/2010, thru 11/23/2010, 21 sessions (10.5 weeks)