Well I passed the 484 today. It was a bit rougher than I expected.
Congrad!!!
You did a good job already.
In fact, among the 3 exams, I found IBM 287 is the most difficult one, as it really expects that you have worked with WSAD before.
Lucky that I won Howard's book here, and the kindly help from Thomas, I passed the exam before the free voucher expiry.
I did not do the greatest job in the world. This forum was very valuable to me. Thank you Nicholas Cheung for responding to my thread.
Welcome.
I used a lot of books including "SCWCD Exam Study Kit" and "Enterprise Javabeans 3rd edition" and "Designing Enterprise Applications with the J2EE Platform 2nd edition" as well as "Developing J2EE Applications with IBM Websphere Studio" by Howard Kushner. I think they were all important. Also using this technology in the field helped as well.
In addition to Hans' book (EJB 3rd edition), I also recommend HF EJB by Kathy and Bert, they explain the EJB concepts clearly in their book, so that you will find easy to learn.
So, what is your next plan?
486 or 287?
I am waiting for SCDJWS and IBM 288.
Nick
SCJP 1.2, OCP 9i DBA, SCWCD 1.3, SCJP 1.4 (SAI), SCJD 1.4, SCWCD 1.4 (Beta), ICED (IBM 287, IBM 484, IBM 486), SCMAD 1.0 (Beta), SCBCD 1.3, ICSD (IBM 288), ICDBA (IBM 700, IBM 701), SCDJWS, ICSD (IBM 348), OCP 10g DBA (Beta), SCJP 5.0 (Beta), SCJA 1.0 (Beta), MCP(70-270), SCBCD 5.0 (Beta), SCJP 6.0, SCEA for JEE5 (in progress)