I'm a software developer at a large insurance company in Canada. Our dept. is looking at getting some training for us all. We are mostly a java group (JSF/JSP/Servlets) but obviously we use a lot of other web technologies (tiles, ajax, YUI ...etc). The main topics we're looking at are:
- JSF
- AJAX
- Web security
- Advanced Java/EE topics
We do have the option to go to conferences away from the office, but in general we're looking to bring the training to us (one perk of working for a large profitable company i suppose). Some of the Sun courses seem like no-brainers, but i'm very interested to hear if anyone here on stackoverflow has any experience with the above mentioned courses or other ones that might be easily overlooked.
thanks for any and all help.
edit:
Here are a few that we've found with some basic searching online. Can anyone speak to the usefulness of any of these courses?
Web Application Security http://www.learningtree.ca/courses/940.htm http://www.nexientlearning.com/NexientLearning/en-ca/LeftNavigation/KnowledgeCentres/Outlines/Courses/CS/1/CSE-398 http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/DTJ-3109.xml
Ajax Web Development http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/DTW-2126.xml
JSF http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/DTW-3000.xml
JSP/Servlets http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/SL-314-EE5.xml
Other http://www.globalknowledge.ca/training/category.asp?pageid=64&catid=218&country=Canada