There is a terrific source for people in your spot. Go to
http://www.sun.com/developers/edu/camps/ there are tons of courses called Developer Code Camps there on
J2EE technologies, most of them include slides, lab exercises, source code - the works.And it's all free. Some of it is better than others - but,hey, it is from Sun and it is free.
Another good source is the new J2EE 1.3 Tutorial that's out now. Downloadable source and they walk you through step-by-step.
Some things out on on Sun right now...
EJB 2.0
� Web Services
� J2ME[tm]
� J2EE[tm]-EJB[tm]
� XML &
Java[tm]
� JavaSever Pages(
JSP[tm]) and
Servlets Programming
� Java[tm] Message Service (JMS)
� Using JMS, XML & JSP Together
� J2EE[tm] Development and Deployment with the iPlanet[tm] Application Server
Have fun!
Chana