New ESRI Course: Developing Applications With ArcGIS Server Using the Java Platform
A couple readers emailed me to complain that I forgot to add the new Java ArcGIS Server course to my blog in addition to the .NET ones. Just an oversight I assure you. 
Well this ESRI course introduces the Java Web Application Development Framework and teaches you how to build custom ArcGIS Server applications. For those out there trying to develop in Java on ESRI products, my hat is off to you.
ArcGIS Server provides a set of software components and a framework for developing centrally managed GIS applications. This advanced course introduces the Java Web Application Development Framework and teaches how to build custom ArcGIS Server applications. Students learn the basics of JavaServer Faces; about the available libraries, application programming interfaces, and server development guidelines; and how to develop different types of Web applications. In course exercises, students build JavaServer Pages Web applications that use ADF Web controls. Students also learn how to extend the ADF with custom buttons and tools through the new task framework.
“My hat is off to you”, does that mean it’s easier with the .Net Framework? English is not my mother tongue
I would say developing in Java on the ESRI platform is much more difficult than .NET because of the lack of Java support from ESRI.
Now it has gotten much better at 9.2, so I’ll give them that.
Anyone out there running ArcServer 9.2 on Linux or Solaris and doing geoprocessing via Python? Aside from installation of ArcServer, is the Java framework a requirement?
I’m interested in using Python + the geoprocessor as a replacement for Perl + AML in a unix-linux environment. I can program web apps in Java, but for most of what I’m doing the web is not a part of the picture and Python + the geoprocessor looks like a sweet alternative. Pointers to any resources welcome.
I want to do master in geomatics on some loan or schalorship. Curently I am doing diploma in geomatics from India.
I find it simpler to develop with java ADG for ArcGIS server rather than in .NET, although I have been developing ArcGIS desktop based software with .NET for quite sometime.