Skip any chapter at your own risk.
The
objectives cover a lot of ground. The problem is that some of the chapters cover more detail than the exam requires - however there is no easy way to draw the line between what is fundamental (to the exam) and what is "too detailed" (in regard to the exam).
Also
J2EE Web Services does not cover Web service design, architecture or security.
You could have answered your own question by consulting
Val's SCDJWS Spec-Objectives matrix.
Section 1: XML Web Service Standards
RMH: Chapters 2, 3
Objectives: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Section 2:
SOAP 1.1 Web Service Standards
RMH: Chapter 4, Appendix D, E
Objectives 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
Section 3: Describing and Publishing (WSDL and UDDI)
RMH: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8
Objectives 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Section 4: JAX-RPC
RMH: Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; Appendix G
Objectives: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7
Section 5: SOAP and XML Processing APIs (JAXP, JAXB, and SAAJ)
RMH: Chapters 13, 20, 21; Appendix E
Objectives: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
Section 6: JAXR
RMH: Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19
Objectives: 6.1, 6.2
Section 7:
J2EE Web Services
RMH: Chapter 1 +
Objectives: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Section 8: Security
???
Section 9: Developing Web Services
RMH: Chapters 22, 23, 24
Objectives: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, 9.6
Section 10: General Design and Architecture
???
Section 11: Endpoint Design and Architecture
???
Designing Web Services with the J2EE 1.4 Platform: JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies fills in some of the gaps.
Objective: 4.5
WSBP: 3.2 (Flow of a Web Service Call), 3.41 (Designing the Interface), 5.3.4 (WSDL-to-Java Type Mapping)
Objective: 5.2
WSBP: 4.4.1 (Choosing an XML Processing Programming Model), 4.5 (Performance Considerations)
Objective: 6.1
WSBP: 3.6 (Publishing a Web Service)
Objective: 7.2
WSBP: 1.1 (What Are Web Services?), 1.2 (Benefits of Web Services), 1.5 (J2EE 1.4: The Platform for Web Services)
Objective: 7.3
WSBP: 2.2 (J2EE: The Integrated Platform for Web Services)
Objective: 8.1
WSBP: 7.4 (Message-Level Web Service Security)
Objective: 8.4
WSBP: 1.3.2 (Security), 7 (Security)
Objective: 9.1
WSBP: 3.8 (Deploying and Packaging a Service Endpoint), 5.4.4 (Packaging)
Objective: 10.3
WSBP: 1.3 (Challenges of Web Service Development), 3.3(Key Web Services Design Decisions), 4.5 (Performance Considerations)
Objective: 10.4
WSBP: 3.4.1.5 (Handling Exceptions), 5.3.5 (Processing Return Values), 5.3.6 (Handling Exceptions), 8.6.3 (Handling Asynchronous Interaction Error Conditions)
Objective: 10.5
WSBP: 6 (Enterprise Application Integration)
Objective: 10.6
WSBP: 5.4.1 (Managing Conversational State)
Objective: 11.1
WSBP: 3.4 (Designing a Service�s Interaction Layer), 8.3 (Endpoint Design Issues)
Objective: 11.2
WSBP: 3.4 (Designing a Service�s Interaction Layer), 3.5 (Processing Layer Design)
Objective: 11.3
WSBP: 4 (XML Processing)
Objective: 11.4
WSBP: 8.4.3 (Refactoring Synchronous to Asynchronous Interactions)
Objective: 11.5
WSBP: 5.2 (Scenarios for Web Services-Based Client Applications), 5.4 (General Considerations)
However to understand the relevant sections you may need to read the entire
book anyway.
Then you still need to read something like
Mikalai Zaikin's Chapter on Security to cover the remaining holes in Section 8.
After all that you probably will still have some weak spots concerning the
Transformation API for XML in JAXP 1.2. It's a good idea to know how exactly you would apply an XSLT with JAXP 1.2 and what javax.xml.transform.Source, javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXSource, javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource, javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource, javax.xml.transform.Result, javax.xml.transform.sax.SAXResult, javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult, javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult are all about.
... and
you should know about
JAXB.
Some people rely more heavily on
Mikalai Zaikin's SCDJWS Study Guide - but that usually only works if you have some Web services experience already.
[ March 22, 2006: Message edited by: Peer Reynders ]
