Passed SCEA Part 2 and 3 ( 98%)

[Mannu Sureka]

- Used Poseidon for UML Community Edition ( free download from http://www.gentleware.com/ ) for making the diagrams.
- The audiocast "How to Build an E-Commerce Application Using JavaTM 2 Enterprise Edition, (J2EETM ) Platform" was very helpful. Here is the link to the audiocast.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/webcasts/webcamp/cmcdonald.html .
- The Java Petstore sample application was very helpful.
- There is plenty of information on J2EE patterns and UML on the web. I just went over the core J2EE patterns and learnt how they can be applied the assignment.
Ashish

[sandeep balyan]

Hi Congrats to u .
Hi want to ask u
1)I dont have any experience in UML but want to learn can u pls tell me how to start and get it possible for exam . any type of excercise
2)how much study and time is required for this exam after having experince in jsp,servlets and javabeans and EJB .more than two yrs
3)any pre requirment for test mean do u have to go through SCJP b4 this.
4)any tip u want to give as u did it so well.
Waiting for u r reply
regards
take care

[Yogesh Deshpande]

Originally posted by Mannu Sureka:
- Used Poseidon for UML Community Edition ( free download from http://www.gentleware.com/ ) for making the diagrams.
- The audiocast "How to Build an E-Commerce Application Using JavaTM 2 Enterprise Edition, (J2EETM ) Platform" was very helpful. Here is the link to the audiocast.
http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/webcasts/webcamp/cmcdonald.html .
- The Java Petstore sample application was very helpful.
- There is plenty of information on J2EE patterns and UML on the web. I just went over the core J2EE patterns and learnt how they can be applied the assignment.
Ashish

Ashish,
Fantastic score and hearty congrats!
I found the link very useful.Thanks for contributing.
Cheers,
Yogesh

[Byron Estes]

Nice job! Mine's almost ready for submission, billable software projects keep getting in the way (...but I gueess that's a good problem)
Anyway, Congratulations!

[tom walters]

great score! what version of petstore did you use? petstore 1.3 or an older version?

[Mannu Sureka]

Hi Tom,
I looked at the JavaTM Pet Store Demo, version 1.1.2
Ashish

[Mannu Sureka]

Hi Jas,
I guess the best way to get started is to go through some of the posts in this forum. I was able to get answer to most of the questions that i had by doing a search in this forum.
I guess there is no definite answer on how much time it might take to finish the assignment. It just varies from person to person and depends how much experience or background you already have in varous topics that the assignment is based on.
For the Prerequisites refer to Java Certification Details
Ashish

[Kartik Shah]

Congrats !!!
What framework did you use ? If you did use petstore's framework did you made any changes to it ?
Thanks
Kartik

[Richard Brown]

Congrats.. how much did you take for Part 2 and 3?
What next??
Cheers
Rich

[tom walters]

Mannu, how would you compare the level of detail in your solution compared to the level of detail Cade gives in his study guide for his part2 case study solution?

[Mannu Sureka]

Hi Kartik,
I just went over the architectural overview, api documentation and browsable source code to get an idea on how the perstore example used DAO, Request Handlers, Events, Screen Flow, Controllers, Main Servlet, Signin/Signout etc and how the example applied the core J2EE design patterns.
Ashish

[Mannu Sureka]

Hi Richard,
I submitted the assignment after around 4 month of downloading it and used to work on it whenver i found time for the assignment but never recorded how many hours i would have spent on it.
Next I plan to appear for the BEA weblogic certification exam and have started preparing for it. My guess is that i will take the test after 4 months.
How about you.
Ashish.

[Mannu Sureka]

Hi Tom,
In my solution i have provided much more detail than the case study in Mark cade's book. In my class diagram i have shown the attributes and methods (not the getters and setters but the important ones) for the classes which is missing in mark cade's book. Moreover, the class diagram in mark cade's study guide shows no classes for controllers, events, DAO, request processros and dispatchers, bean home and remote interfaces, value objects etc.
Ashish.