Downloads??

[Lakshmi Saradha]

Hi,
I have purchased a voucher for the BCD exam. I am very new to EJB. Currently I have started reading Enterprise Javabeans by RMH. Is there a place where I can come to know about
1)downloading an IDE(Do you suggest this or do you suggest typing the code in a notepad?)
2)Downloading the server?
3)Sample tutorials to write a 'hello world' program and deploy it.

Thanks,
Lakshmi.

[Vidya Sethuraman]

Hi,

You can refer to Head First EJB book by K&B. It is very helpful. This book suggests you can download J2EE RI server for practice.

[Raja Sagar Panamgipalli]

HI Lakshmi,
The book HFEJB is awesome,one stop resource....(Thank u K&B)
You shud also go thru Mastering EJB2.0 2nd Edition or 3rd by ed roman
and lastly the EJB spec 2.0

Bye..

[Chengwei Lee]

For free production-ready & J2EE certified servers, you could either try JBoss or Jonas. My suggestion is not to use any IDEs yet for helping you to create the interfaces & bean class. Some IDEs automate too much until you'd miss out on a lot of required knowledge for the exams. But if you're interested, try the JBoss-IDE, its a plugin for use with Eclipse. Both being free.

Anyway, there's a link at the top for SCBCD materials, do check it out. And reading the specifications, does help.

[Lakshmi Saradha]

Thank you all.

How is this exam? Does it require a lot of practice like the SCJP?

[Keerthi P]

Oh yes. But Head First EJB makes it all fun. All the best.