Matt Raible's three day Open Source Java Jewels course will teach you about many useful open source Java tools like Maven, Spring, Hibernate, JUnit, TestNG, DWR, Spring MVC, AppFuse and Selenium. On completing this course you will know how to build an application with many popular open source frameworks.

Spring and Hibernate:

• Introductions and Overview
• Presentation: Spring Framework Overview
• Lab 1: Loading the BeanFactory and using IoC
• Presentation: The BeanFactory in-depth (handling life-cycle events, property editors, multiple context files)
• Lab 2: Writing a custom PropertyEditor
• Presentation: Introduction t
• Hibernate and JPA
• Lab 3: Persistence with Spring and Hibernate
• Presentation: Spring Persistence, DAOs and Caching

Testing, Maven and Spring MVC:

• Presentation: Introduction t
• Maven 2
• Presentation: Testing Spring Applications
• Lab 4: Testing with JUnit and jMock
• Presentation: Introduction t
• Spring MVC
• Lab 5: Create a Master/Detail Screen
• Presentation: Advanced Spring MVC (page decoration, validation, property editors, wizards)

Ajax, AppFuse and UI Testing:

• Lab 6: Validation and Handling Dates with Spring MVC
• Presentation: Developing web applications with Ajax and DWR
• Lab 7: Ajaxifying Master/Detail
• Presentation: Introduction t
• AppFuse 2.0
• Lab 8: Creating Projects with AppFuse
• Presentation: Maven Plugins and AMP (AppFuse Maven Plugin)
• Lab 9: Code Generation with AMP
• Presentation: UI Testing with Canoo WebTest, JWebUnit and Selenium