There has recently been evidence for replacing the usual Weyl quantization
procedure by the older and much less known Born-Jordan rule. In this paper we
discuss this quantization procedure in detail and relate it to recent results
of Boggiato, De Donno, and Oliaro on the Cohen class.
We calculate the character of the Weil representation using previous results
which express the Weyl symbol of metaplectic operators in terms of the
symplectic Cayley transform and the Conley--Zehnder index.