Thanks for the encouragment!
I am going to plead my case. I do take responsibility for not fulfilling the "must" requirement and am prepared to pay the extra cash, but there's a few things that bother me about having to do this:
1. The instructions were a little vague, IMO, regarding the whole runme.jar executable. I honestly think they should have drew attention that the main submission jar was to be the certmanager jar, and that runme.jar was a jar inside of it only containing the binaries
2. Certmanager itself has been buggy. When I payed for my examination, I couldn't even upload my project. I had to wait a few days for them to activate it. I grin about this one, because it's almost the same thing in reverse; they are inconveniencing me by not following an "established" protocol. However, I didn't ask for my money back and chose to overlook the issue; hopefully they are prepared to do the same :-).
I have sent Prometric an email pleading my case:
I need to upload my assignment again due to an invalid directory structure. Do I need to spend more money for this? If so, I'm obviously quite disappointed, as I feel the submission instructions may not have been as clear as they could have been. I have echoed this in my choices.txt document, and I feel the mistake was a minor misunderstanding.
Here is a quote:
"
...Submission
==========
I had some problems understanding how the submission was to be packaged. I thought, from reading the instructions, that a file called "runme.jar" was to be submitted with all of the documentation, source code and binaries included within it.
After receiving a failing grade for an invalid submission, it was made clear to me that the executable portion of the application (the binaries and manifest) were to be in a jar called runme.jar that lives inside the jar submission file. This was obviously easier than the way I originally interpreted it.
I reread the instructions for the submission, and was able to deduce what Sun really wanted only with help from the person who failed me. I'm not too happy about this and personally feel that the instructions for the jar could have been clearer. A suggestions is to state that the documentation, source code and other supporting files, AS WELL AS a runme.jar file needs to be placed into a jar file with a name that the certmanager site specifies. I now know..."
Please let me know as soon as possible, as I wish to get this resolved.
We'll see how that turns out. Again, I do take full responsibility for not packaging the submission properly, but I did it to the best of my abilities. I even had a checklist made that addressed all the musts, and must have re-read the submission portion a dozen times!
I'll keep the group posted! Wish me luck.
Cheers,
Jason
[ February 07, 2004: Message edited by: Jason Mowat ]