• It is my goal to post the up-to-date presentation material each week the night before the date of the class specified in the class schedule. (I am sure there will be exceptions, however.)
• The presentation material will be posted in three different forms
• PDF file with speaker notes (if I have time to do it).  Folks who are taking this course "online" are expected to read this file.
• 4 slides per page PDF file.  Folks who are coming to the class can bring the printout of this file.
• StarOffice file.  The StarOffice file can be read by using either Sun's StarOffice 7.0 after or OpenOffice from openoffice.org.  You are welcome to modify and use the StarOffice files as long as you include the "disclaimer & acknowledgment" slide.
• Some people find that eBookReader from Adobe is quite useful in reading PDF files, for example, you can get software to voice-read the speaker notes.  eBookReader can be downloade from here (only Windows and Mac platforms are supported).
• I am constantly updating my presentation material even for the ones I already talked about.  I am giving a lot of talks on various topics so I am constantly going back to old presentation materials including the ones I am using for this class to update them with newer and hopefully with better contents.  And I will, once in a while, update whole contents.  Typically when I post the material a couple of days before the class, the contents should be about 95% stable. 
  
• Weekly presentation material will be posted under class schedule

• Online attendees of this course are expected to do the course work as following
  
• Read the pre-class reading material at the convenient time of their choice - the dates specified are only for the guideline
  
• Read the presentation slides (with speaker notes) at the convenient time of their choice
• Do the homework and final project - the due date of all homeworks and final project is two weeks after the final class so you have plenty of time to finish them
  
• Participate in class email alias for asking and answering questions - the top 3 people (besides Sean Dockery and myself) who answer the most questions will get some personal gifts from me like T-shirts and books and so on
• At this time, I don't have any plan (nor resource) to offer real-time webcasting.  I am looking at a possibility of creating the audio from the presentation material, however.
  
• Right now, I am more focused on creating slides with detailed speaker notes.   It is my intention to follow the speaker notes as closely as possible.
• I teach these courses in Brandeis University and Boston University as their regular Graduate degree programs - of course, you are expected to register and pay the tuition to take these courses face to face.  So if you see a reference of "face-to-face", that applies to only those Brandeis University and Boston University students who take these courses face to face.  So if you are taking this course online, disregard any reference to "face to face".
  

• Weekly pre-class reading material will be posted under class schedule

• The class email alias was set up for attendees to post questions, share knowledge, and exchange ideas among themselves during the course period.  Attendees are strongly encouraged to post technical questions, interesting articles, tools, sample programs or anything that is relevant to the class.
• The postings to this email alias can be delivered to you in 3 different ways: via regular email, via daily digest, or read postings from group website only when you want to.  If you feel you are getting too mail emails on this alias, please change delivery option to either daily digest or on-damand reading option.  You can do this by selecting "Edit My Membership" on your Yahoo screen.
• You can unsubscribe the email alias (thus, unregister from this course) by sending an email to the following. Please do not send "unsubscribe"/"unregister" request to group email alias nor directly to instructors.
• j2eerocks-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for "J2EE prgramming (with Passion!)" course.
  
• webservicesprogramming-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for "Web Services prgramming (with Passion!)" course.
• javaintro1-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com for "Java Intro 1 Programming Bootcamp" course.

• When you are posting a question, please make sure you've done your share of work.  Make sure you read the relevant documentation, presenation slides, FAQ, and other postings before you post your question.
• Also please capture as much relevant  information as possible such as following 
• trace of the exception
• screen output message of the failure
• environment variable settings
• OS platform you use
  
• Even though the folks who usually answer questions (including myself and Sean) are trying to address them as speedy and as best as they can, please understand that these folks are using their spare time and resource to do these as voluntary activities.  Please also note that answering questions like "I did this and somehow it doesn't work" kind of questions are never easy to answer.  Consequently not all questions can be nor would be answered in timely manner.
• Please ask questions that are relevant to the topics of the week if possible so that we can have more focused discussions.
  
• If you find any answers to the questions, please feel free to post to the alias so that other people can benefit.
• I know sometimes you want to send technical questions directly to me (Sang Shin) and Sean Dockery but doing so is strongly discouraged due to the following reasons:
• In most cases, you will get faster responses by posting them to the class alias.  After all, that is what the community is all about. I expect members to help each other on technical questions.
  
• I personally cannot keep track of who sent what questions due to the large number of emails I have to deal with. (I am sure many of you are in the same boat.) Your questions posted on the class alias will remain there so that they can answered at a later time by someone.
  
• In general, myself and Sean are always and extremely stretched out in terms of available time I have. 
  

j2eerocks-jobs@yahoogroups.com - this is a child group email alias for posting/discussing anything related to jobs, employment, unemployment.

In order to subscribe this email alias, please send an email to j2eerocks-jobs-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

In order to unsubscribe this email alias, please send an email to j2eerocks-jobs-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

• j2eerocks-feedback@yahoogroups.com - this is a child group email alias for sending feedback about this class.  For example, if you have some suggestions on how this course could be run better, send an email to this alias.

In order to subscribe this email alias, please send an email to j2eerocks-feedback-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

In order to unsubscribe this email alias, please send an email to j2eerocks-feedback-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

Expected amount of work you will have to do in order to finish this course successfully (besides attending classes)

• There will be about 6 or 7 homework's, which means for each class, there will be a corresponding homework assignment. Each homework will take between 4 to 8 hours depending on individual skill set and knowledge. Typical homework assignment includes the following:
• Installation of software and running demo programs
• Modifying demo programs
• Building and deploying various J2EE programs
• There will be a final project.
• There will not be a mid-term exam nor project
• There will not be quizzes during classes

• For homework grading policy, see homework assignment section of Grading policy
• Actual home work assignments will be posted under class schedule
• Homework has to be submiited through email. See below on How to submit homeworks.
  

• You submit your homeworks and final project through email. 
  
• You  must adhere the naming convention mentioned below, however, for all your homeworks and final project.   Not following this convention could result in the loss of your homeworks. 
  
• The homework file type should be a *.zip file and the file name MUST follow the following format.
• <Lastname>_<Firstname>_<emailAddressWithoutThePartAfter@>_HW#.zip
• Examples:
  
• Shin_Sang_sang.shin_HW2.zip (for homework #2)
• Shin_Sang_sang.shin_HW3.zip (for homework #3)
  
• Shin_Sang_sang.shin_Final.zip (for final project)
• The Subject field of your email should say the Homework number, for example,
  
• HW#2 (for homework 2)
• HW#3 (for homework 3)
  
• Final Project (for final project)
  
• The files to be submitted are:
  
• Source files
• Deployment descriptor
• Output messages (text output files, data input, build.xml, screen shot when appropriate)
• Application WAR file (optional)
• Send the zip file to j2ee10thhomeworks@sun.com for J2EE Programming with Passion course Session 9.
• Unless specified explicitly, the due date for all homeworks and final project is 2 weeks after the last class.  (For the 9th session, the deadline is Jan. 9th of 2006)
  

• Objectives
• To build an E-commerce application using various J2EE technologies minimally, Servlet or JSP, and Session bean and Entity beans
• You are welcome to add any other J2EE features such as Message-Driven Beans (MDB), Connector architecture, Web services, MVC pattern, etc.
  
• Tasks
• You build an web-based e-commerce (or something similar) application of your choice and reasonable complexity.  By reasonable complexity, I meant the following (I agree this numeric description is somewhat arbitrary but this is one way to make the scope of final project less ambiguous.)  It is OK for you to use the existing sample E-commerce application as a base and then add your own DB tables,  JSP/Servlet and EJB beans.
• Minumum 3 web-tier components (JSP or Servlet)
• Form-based authentication
• Minimum 2 database tables
• Example applications include
• Java Duke's Bank Sample Application (<SunONE-AppServer7-Install>/samples/dukesbank/docs/index.html) from Sun ONE App Server 7 Tutorial
  
• Java Duke's Bank Application from J2EE tutorial in java.sun.com
• Java Pet Store application from J2EE blueprint series
• Prestigae Bike Hire application from Kevin Boone's Applied Enterprise JavaBeans
  
• Duke's bookstore application - You can modify Duke's bookstore application to use EJB
  
• Library book inventory and check-out application 
• College course registration application
• Outcome expected
• 1-2 page architectural description of the project 
• Source code and relevant files (i.e. web.xml and EJB deployment descriptor) in a single zip file

• You  must adhere the naming convention for all your homeworks and final project.   Not following this convention will result in the loss of your homeworks.
• Create the zip file in the following format
• Lastname_Firstname_<emailAddressWithoutThePartAfter@>_HW#.zip
• Shin_Sang_sang.shin_HW2.zip (example for a homework)
• Shin_Sang_sang.shin_Final.zip (example for final project)
  
• Send the zip file to brandeisj2ee2005homeworks@sun.com
• Make sure the Subject field of your email is set to homework number or final project like following
• HW3
  
• Final project
• Make sure you use the same email account to send your homework and final project
  

Direction to Sun Burlington Campus

• Address
• 1 Network Drive, Burlington, MA 01803
• Sun Campus Main Phone number: 781-442-0000
• Yahoo Map
• From Rt. 128 South

Take 3 North to then take next exit- Rt. 62 (exit # 26)

At end of ramp, turn right.

At second set of traffic lights, turn right onto Network Drive and and you will see an entrance to Sun Microsystems on your right.  Enter into the premise of Sun Microsystems by taking a right turn.

Once getting into Sun premise, follow VISITOR PARKING SIGNS. (Visitor parking is beside the clock tower. And the lobby is in the building just across the clock tower.)

Park your car in visitor parking area and get  into the lobby. (If visitor parking space is full, use other parking spaces in the campus.)

• From the Massachusetts Turnpike and points West:

• Take Mass Pike/Rt. 90 East to 128 North/95 North.
• Follow 128 North to Rt 3 North
• Take 3 North to next exit- Rt. 62
• Continue directions from above
• From points North (Rt 3):

• Take Rt 3 South to exit for Rt 62 (exit # 26)
• At the end of ramp, at the light, turn left
• At third set of traffic lights, turn right onto Network Drive and follow VISITOR PARKING SIGNS

• If you submitted all the homeworks and final project, you will be given a certificate.
• The certificate has no affliation with any colleges, educational institution, company.  Instead, it is my personal recognition that you have done your share of work, thus successfully finished the course.
• For face to face attendees, I will set up a time when you can pick up your certificates.  For online attendees, you have to send me return-envelope with proper stamp in order to receive paper certificate.  (I am also thinking about sending certificates via email for online attendees.)

• Since there is some expense involved in operating this class (website, domain name registration, creating certficates, etc.), I accept donations. This is completely voluntary of course.
• The yearly cost for running this course is about $600.  If you want to make a donation to help me cover this cost, please send the check to the following location. Or you can use my PayPal account with my email address, sang.shin@sun.com. 
  
• Sang Shin
• 5 Dewey Rd
• Lexington, MA 02420 USA
  

• This course is specifically offered to unemployed colleagues of our industry.  Please let them know about this course.  (I am sure you know several.)   Employed engineers will be accepted as long as there are free spaces for "face to face" sessions.
• This course can be taken "online" as well.  That is, if you cannot attend the class in person because you live in California or in India for example, you can still take the course "online" by studying the weekly course materials yourself, doing the homeworks and final project, and participating in the class discussion through class email alias.  Everybody regardless of their employment status is welcome to take the course online.  For those folks who take the course online, I am planning to add detailed speaker notes to the slides to the extent I find time to do so.
• This is the second time I am offering a free course.  If you are curious on how it would be like, please take a look at free "Jini programming" course I taught during the summer of 2002.
• This is ten 3-hour session course that might span about 3 to 4 month period (or more depending on how hectic my travel schedule becomes).  The detailed class schedule will be posted in the class website and up-to-the minute schedule change will be posted to class email alias as well. (If you registered by sending an email to j2eerocks-subscribe@yahoogroups.com, then you are already in the class email alias.)
• The "face to face" class sessions will be held between 6:00PM to 9:00PM on Monday nights. (The primary reason the class is held on Monday nights is that I travel a lot and having a class in the middle of the week makes scheduling my travel a real challenge.)
• Each session has pre-class reading material.  It is strongly recommended that you read the material before coming to class.  It is my experience that when students come to class with lots of questions, it is a lot more lively and fun.  (Well, actually given the potentially large size of the class, I would restrict the number of questions that can be asked during the class as well as number of questions a single person can ask - 1 question per a session - so that we can cover the day's material.  I would encourage people to ask questions that are unanswered through the class mail alias instead.)
• Each session will have a homework.  You are expected to do the homework every week.  Homework is a programming assignment.  Depending on your Java experience, each homework will take between 4 to 8 hours to complete.
• You are expected to do final project.  There is no mid-term project and there is no quizzes during the class.
• We will use our class email alias through which you can ask questions or answer questions from fellow students.  Hopefully we can secure some teaching assistants who can answer questions.
• The prerequisite of this course is 6 months Java programming experience.  If you have some object-programming experience like in C++ but no Java programming experience, you can easily pick up Java programming knowledge by following Basic Java tutorials found in java.sun.com.
• I am teaching this course purely as my personal endeavor using my personal time and resource (and of course with generous help from my employer, Sun Microsystems, allowing us to use the class room facilities).  So please be warned that things might not always be as timely or as organized as it could be.
• I am excited to teach this class.  And I am committed to teach this class with Passion.  I hope you participate in this class with Passion as well.  Let's rock, ladies and gentlemen!

• Managing homeworks and final projects: (I would need 4 or 5 people for this)
• Creating and testing homeworks
• Researching some subjects
• Answering technical questions being asked in the class email alias
• Creating FAQ for each session
• Managing our website
  
• Various logistical help I would need