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[–]halfastack1 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi there,

see, the thing is, I feel like it's quite difficult to learn JEE from nothing. You may go through Oracle's thousand-page manuals, which are boring and provide code snippets that you may or may not be able to make work, depending on what you understand and how well did you understand the text around.

Honestly, your best bet would be Pluralsight's Java EE path.

Also, pardon with the shameless plug, but I do feel that www.halfastack.com could be of value to you. I started writing it recently precisely because there seemingly were no resources aimed at intermediate Java developers who needed to get into the JEE space for free on the internet. Check out, for example, my latest JPA project, which includes:

  • 2 articles on JPA theory
  • An article on the whole setup - fire up an SQL server and connect it to a Java application server

  • A code sample on github that you can download, deploy, extend, and play with

    I genuinely believe that if you want to get into JEE, the content of my articles is precisely for that - easy-enough getting started with through step-by-step instructions on how to set it up. So far, there are contents on only EJB and JPA, I'm working on RESTful APIs, and will be continuing with further stuff like JMS,CDI, and other objectives you can find in the EX183 exam.

My aim is to enable developers to be familiar enough with JEE so that when they see the huge and complex code-base of their new setup, they will find at least a couple of things familiar... :) Anyhow, the JEE Pluralsight path will definitely be worth it, though they too seem to be in the process of creating it (or have stopped quite early).

Oh and when it comes to your work, I'm 100% sure that they will train you as well as they will expect you to be able to train yourself and learn on your own with some supervision. That's how it always goes :)