Edisandro you're on your way too! You scored over 90% on SCJP, so over 90% on SCWCd won't be a problem at all if you put the same effort. I must admit that I learned a lot from our discussions on SCJP forum, to bad you weren't here when I was preparing to SCWCD, I'm sure it would be mutually benefical
Yes, I got the visa and going at the end of June, have to earn for my studies and some new books

As for certification, I'm planning to learn XML while being there and pass the exam when I come back. I'll not have much time because of a lot of work, but if I manage to find time to learn for about one hour a day, I should be able to learn a lot, coz I'll be there for four months. Next in the queue are
SCJD and SCBCD. When I get them all, I'll start looking for some training or internship, hopefully the certificates will help me to finally find something.
As for time spent on learining for SCWCD, well... I'm sorry Edisandro, but I cannot give you accurate answer. As you know I passed my SCJP on March 24th and started learning several days later. Read HFSJ once to get familiar with the technology, and then another one time focusing on each topic and making notes. Later I just was reading the board and making my own website based on
Servlets and
JSP. I think that's the best way of learining. I wrote a lot of small programs while preparing to SCJP, and decided to create something in JSP and Servlets too. Then you just don't have to "force" yourself to memorize all the DD or TLD elements or how to use custom tags or how to use tag files, filters etc. You just work on it and it stays in your head

If you want to you can check the site out, I'll leave my
Tomcat and SQL started, but the site isn't finished, I had to stop because of lack of the time. Don't be discouraged by long time of loading, my connection is very poor and sometimes it is completely down.
http://82.160.123.68:8080/mysql/index.jsp Regarding mocks, I did mocks from HFSJ and Enthuware JWebPlus, scored around 80% in all.
[ May 14, 2006: Message edited by: Aleksander Zielinski ]