For preparation materials and other suggestions please see:
SCDJWS Links SCDJWS Specifications-Objectives Matrix Preparing for SCDJWS.. Please help (following any links that the topic may reference).
As for the much requested "Head First Web Services" please refer to the following threads:
Head First UML & Patterns
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
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SCJWSD is fairly low on the 'possible' list
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Head First book for SCJA
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
...there are a couple of issues with the web services exam:
1 - It's not as popular as the SCJA
2 - We don't like web services very much.
We helped Sun in the early planning stages for their course and with the exam objectives - it was a nightmare! Planning that normally takes a couple of weeks, took almost 6 months. Perhaps this set of technologies has started to settle down a bit, but they have always seemed to me to have a kind of amorphous, hard-to-pin-down sort of feeling about them.
3 - It would have to be a bigger than usual HF book - and they're already big - so it's a much bigger risk in that way too.
Anyway, we are always waiting and watching for th right time...