LEGACY-TO-LAN MIGRATION BOOT CAMP (five-days, hands-on)
Instructor: Constantine Kaniklidis

These boot camps provide registrants with an intensive one-week crash curriculum in the foundations of the new LAN-based development technologies, from the desktop/LAN system environment, through LAN-based development (Client/Server, OOP, n-tier Architectures, middleware, component object models (CORBA, J2EE, ActiveX, ASP, .NET), thin computing (Citrix MetaFrame), Web Application Servers (WebSphere, Weblogic, Sun ONE/iPlanet), Internet fundaments, and finally Enterprise Web Development.

The Desktop/LAN Environment
        Desktop Systems:  NT, Windows 9x, Windows 2000, XP
        UNIX in the Enterprise
        All about LAN:  Token Rings, Ethernets, Bridges, Routers, Gateways, . . .
        Understanding Document Servers: Lotus Notes/Domino, MS Exchange
        Wireless Technologies

LAN-based Application Development
        Client/Server Architecture and the New n-Tier Architectures
        Object-Oriented Programming Demystified
        A Survey of Application Development Tools (VB, PowerBuilder, . . .)
        All about Database Servers (Oracle, Sybase, Microsoft, . . .)

Understanding Middleware 
        ODBC, MQ (Message Queuing), ORBs,  Transaction Monitors, . . .
        Legacy Gateways: LAN-to-WAN Mainframe Connections
        Web Application Servers: WebSphere, Weblogic, Sun ONE/iPlanet, . . .

Understanding Component Object Models
        What is CORBA?
        Microsoft's First Generation Object Technology: ActiveX, COM/DCOM, ASP
        The Java Programming Language and Sun's J2EE Framework
        JDBC, Servlets, JSP, EJB
        The JavaBeans Object Model
        Microsoft's Second Generation Object Technology: The .NET Framework
        The Citrix MetaFrame Model)

Internet/Web Technology
        Survival Guide to the Internet
        Essentials of TCP/IP and Internet Infrastructure (HTTP, FTP, DNS,  . . .)
        Web Security: SSL, Proxy Servers, Firewalls, VPNs, Digital Certificates, PKI

A Crash Course in Enterprise Web Development
        Markup:  HTML, Dynamic HTML
        Scripting: JavaScript, VBScript
        Toolkits:  DreamWeaver, FrontPage, Homesite, . . .
        New Tools (Flash, PHP, Maya, . . .)
        Web Servers: NES/Sun ONE/iPlanet, Apache, IIS
        Understanding XML
        A Web Services Overview:  SOAP, UDDI, WSDL

How Applications are Web-enabled