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There is a free online Web Services Programming Class hosted on Yahoo Groups that is starting up today. Note that to participate, you are required to have a Yahoo Groups ID (free, but causes some heartburn to have to sign up).

A free online “Web Services Programming” course is about to begin on Oct. 26th, 2005 for anyone who wants to learn Web services programming. In this 13-week course, attendees learn basic Web Services standards such as SOAP and WSDL, and Java API's for Web services such as JAX-WS, SAAJ, and JAXR. The principles of SOA and relevant technologies such as JBI and BPEL are also addressed. They also learn how to use NetBeans IDE effectively for building and deploying Web services.

This course runs very much like a regular college course in which the attendees are expected to do weekly homework and final project but it is free and can be taken online. There is also class group alias where attendees can ask/answer questions. The complete set of course contents (StarOffice slides with detailed speaker notes and some audio files, homework assignments, reading materials, code samples, FAQ etc.) are available on the website of the course.

The only thing you have to do in order to join the course is sending an email to

webservicesprogramming-subscribe@yahoogroups.com.

For detailed information about this course, please go to the following class website.

Course website: http://www.javapassion.com/webservices Course schedule: http://www.javapassion.com/webservices/#ClassSchedule Course group alias: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/webservicesprogramming/