This project is to support the study group exercises for the DC area JBoss User Group (dc-jbug). 
Our study group meets weekly on Thursday evenings to prepare for Red Hat's JBoss Certified Developer (JBCD) in 
Persistence certification.

The JBCD - Persistence exam tests whether candidates are ready for the real-world responsibilities of creating 
and maintaining Java applications that use the Java Persistence API (JPA) with Hibernate.

The exam objectives and recommended study material is available at: 
   https://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/JBCD-Persistence-Exam-Objectives.pdf


Details about all our meetings are available at http://www.meetup.com/dc-jbug.

Our community portal is at http://community.jboss.org/groups/dc-jbug


Resources
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JBoss and Maven Repositories   - http://community.jboss.org/wiki/MavenGettingStarted-Users
JBoss Tools Project - http://www.jboss.org/tools


JBCD-Persistence Exam Objectives - https://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/JBCD-Persistence-Exam-Objectives.pdf

Hibernate Documentation - 
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   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Web_Server/1.0/html/Hibernate_Core_Reference_Guide/index.html
   http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/4.3/html/Hibernate_Reference_Guide/index.html

Additional Resources
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JBoss and Maven Repositories   - http://community.jboss.org/wiki/MavenGettingStarted-Users
JBoss Tools Project - http://www.jboss.org/tools
JBCD-Persistence Exam Objectives - https://www.redhat.com/f/pdf/JBCD-Persistence-Exam-Objectives.pdf
Hibernate Documentation -
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Web_Server/1.0/html/Hibernate_Core_Reference_Guide/index.html
http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/JBoss_Enterprise_Application_Platform/4.3/html/Hibernate_Reference_Guide/index.html

You Tube Hibernate Training Videos -
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http://patrickwashington.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickwashingtondc
http://www.youtube.com/user/koushks
 
 
Learning Environment
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We have created a VirtualBox Appliance to use for our training.  The stock install is as follows:
 
Scientific Linux version 6.1  <-- no Gnome 3 for us,  ;-) 
git
subversion
cvs
mercurial
openjdk-devel
bzr
Eclipse Helios 3.6
JBoss Tools
M2E
eGit
SubClipse
Maven
Ant
JBoss AS 5.1.0