Originally posted by Rahul Mahindrakar:
Congrats Amanda,
We are waiting ..... for your links to success.
Thanks. My links to success seem to be similar to everyone else's.
Instead of using bookmarks, you could try working from the following URL:
http://www.certificationguru.com/javaarchitectresources.html Anything that I've not specifically linked to can be found here.
Books:
Enterprise JavaBeans - Monson-Haefel (O'Reilly)
Designing Enterprise Apps with J2EE - Nicholas Kassem
UML Distilled - Martin Fowler
For I18N:
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/Books/Essentials Helps to jog the memory
For security and Firewalls:
No suggestions. I already know lots about these subjects.
For JMS:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2000/jw-02-jmsxml.html Is good. It's XML-centric but there isn't much information out there on JMS and unless you are already using Enterprise Messaging you may find it difficult to learn much.
For Design Patterns:
I avoided the Gang of Four book, it looks sooooo dull. I hunted around for Design Patterns as applied to Java and as I learnt more the more I was able to apply them to the J2EE model.
Try
http://www.mindspring.com/~mgrand/ For a reference that can help jog the memory when revising
Or
http://www.patterndepot.com/put/8/JavaPatterns.htm for a bigger reference that focuses on JFC
For UML:
I took the DigitalThink "UML Fundamentals" course. It's ok, but it the examples are rubbish and you have to submit all your answers for the course project as GIF files. Also the Course Project is a mess and they overuse <<Stereotypes>>.
For EJB:
I tooks Sun's EJB Programming course, it was more about the mechanics than the concepts. It's probably better to know *why* you are doing something before you learn *how* to do something.
For Data Access Objects (DAO):
The Kassem book has this covered. In fact DAO's are really useful and I should use them more.
For Active Replication:
http://studsys.mscs.mu.edu/~hli/Dist2000/FinalExam.html Talks about Active Replication and Fault Tolerance
ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ptc/00-03-04.pdf Is the OMG draft for Fault Tolerant Corba
Online Tests:
IBM's Ice
Test is good but it's more about implementation than concepts
Prasks mock exam is ok, as long as you don't care to much if his answers are right.
The Jaworski exam is probably the most useful although it is based on the old Architect exam.
Amit Jnagels test is OK, although the
applet is broken.
BrainBench's EJB test is good, it's quite tough but again it's more implementation specific than conceptual.
If you can't answer all of Sun's EJB test questions correctly then you probably shouldn't bother.
That's about all there is to say really. I hope it helps but really if you want to pass then you probably need to do more than just read.
Amanda