for part 1 what book do you recommend, sites

[rick fields]

for part 1 what book do you recommend, sites

[Vivek Viswanathan]

Books


Mastering
Enterprise JavaBeans and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition

This book covers a lot of topics required for SCEA. Incase you are new to
J2EE and EJB this book will give a very nice introduction to all the
technologies involved. The first edition of this book is freely available for
download from www.theserverside.com.
The first edition of this book covers EJB 1.0 , so this edition is not good for
learning EJB programming since SCEA requires you to know EJB 1.1. The second
edition of this book is currently available and it covers EJB1.1 and EJB2.0 I
have not been able to get my hands on the second edition.


The following topics are explained very well in this book

• Overview of J2EE
  
• CORBA
  
• RMI-IIOP
  
• RMI
  
• JRMP and its effect through firewalls.



Professional
Java Server Programming J2EE Edition

This book has a detailed information about all the technologies that make up
J2EE. This book is very use full for a programmer who is developing components
for the j2ee platform. It also contains information use full for SCEA involving
designing EJB applications for scalability, reliability, maintainability etc. It
also covers good design patters for JSP pages and EJBs, and information
regarding Unit testing of EJB components, which I found very use full while
developing my EJB components. 


Links


Java(TM)
2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Blueprints

The J2EE Blue prints are very use full for understanding all the aspects of
the J2EE platform. This is one book that you should read from cover to cover,
this book does not cover much of code but it explains the various topics that
will help to make correct design decisions. The Java Pet Store is a sample j2ee
application that should also be downloaded and installed, going through the
source code for Pet Store will help you understand a lot of topics that were not
clear. The design patters provided with the blueprints will help you a lot in
designing j2ee system. Each chapter in the blue prints contains a particular
Questions and Answers on that particular chapter, which will answer most of the
common questions, and will save you a lot of time searching for specific answers.


ITpapers

This site contains a very nice collection of white paper on all possible topics.
I found this is site a few days before my SCEA exam, and I found some use full
information on designing computer networks that are scalable, and available.



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[Vivek Viswanathan]

<h3>Firewalls</h3>

Links


Firewalls
from 3Com

This PDF is from www.3com.com , I really
enjoyed reading this white paper. It covers all the topics about firewalls
required for SCEA. This white paper assumes that you have some knowledge about
computer networking in general, if you are new to computer networking you may
have to read this white paper twice and pay attention to the definitions of the
various terms specified on the sidebar. I got this paper from Amit's SCEA site.


Firewalls
and Security from 3Com

Covers Firewalls and Security in general.


Amazon.com buying info Building Internet Firewalls (2nd Edition)

This is an excellent book on designing firewalls. The initial chapters of this
book explains about the various types of firewall designs, that latter part of
this book gets down to actually implementing some of the designs. This book is
not required for SCEA I read this book since I am interested in networking and designing
computer networks. If you are interested in firewalls and want to try stuff out
you could also read the book 'Firewalls 24-7' this book will help you set up
firewalls on a window machine - I have not read this book, but I have got some
real good reviews, alternatively there is another book 'Linux Firewalls' this
helps you to set up and configure Firewall for Linux system. 


Notes

[Sathi Chowdhury]

Thnks so much for this list of book .in your previous post the last line is Notes, but there is no link after that for the notes you suggest.can you please help us with if there is any online notes available.I see there is lot of chapters to cover in this exam.How much time normally is needed to prepare?
thank u for ur valuable sharing,
Sathi

[Vivek Viswanathan]

Notes....was an error here is somemore infomormation
i18n and l11n (Internationalization and Localization)</h3>

Links


Internationalization 

Information about Internationalization as given in Java Docs 1.2. Also read the
the FAQ about Internationalization available in java docs. 


Internationalization
Tutorial

This is an extract from Java Tutorial from the Sun site.


Java Internationalization An Overview

This is a white paper about Internationalization from the Sun Site. The information
here is much better than the information in the above 2 links, reading this
white paper will help you understand the various aspects of Internationalization
without getting into the details of implementation.

[rick fields]

Thansk Alot sorry for the delay just arrived home from New York
Rick

[Deepak Shah]

Thanks Vivek,
The resources you provided are great and I have collected all of them.
Deepak.