Originally posted by Sheri Parker:
Do you think that this would be beneficial for me since my experience is going to be in a language I will never use anywhere else?
Certifications are no doubt beneficial in the beginning of a career in software development, and won't do no harm later on either. However,
this certification might not be the best to start with...
You should certify yourself as an architect only if you feel you're ready to do the job. Usually it takes some years of hands-on software development experience in Java and
J2EE to gather the needed tacit knowledge about the tools at your exposal to be good at architecting J2EE applications. But that's just my opinion. I'd go the traditional path of programmer -> developer -> architect.