Production Web Services - This is a 70+ page tutorial on writing web services.  This tutorial follows our course, which teaches production quality web services using Apache Axis.  Students who have attended our course will find this helpful for review.  This will also greatly help those who don't have the time or resources to make it to one of our courses.  If you're going to work the labs, you'll need to download the Production Web Services Workbook..  

Production Web Services Workbook - Companion workbook to Production Web Services

Stout Systems Newsletters - These are great newsletters put together by fellow professionals in the Ann Arbor area and beyond.  Winter 2005 includes a short, but very readable article on Web Services by Bill Heitzeg

Efficient Software Development - A while back we were trying to come up with a mission statement.  Although far too verbose for a mission statement, the resulting text does a nice job of reflecting our views on software development.

Production Java Tools - This is a tutorial on what we consider to be essential java tools.  We use these tools in our own production environment and think they make a significant difference.  This tutorial covers Apache Ant, Log4J, JUnit, Servlets, our favorite J2EE server, JBoss and our favorite IDE, Eclipse.  The tutorial takes from three to six hours depending on your experience level.  You can get the code for all the labs from our downloads site.  We recommend you work all the labs, which can be found in the Production Java Tools Workbook.

Production Java Tools Workbook - Companion workbook to Production Java Tools

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