I've only just started looking at
SCJD certification (I'm just finishing my preparation for SCBCD). However, I have bought Max's book and seen that it deals with NIO. But I also looked at Sun's Certification web site for SCJD, which lists the following restrictions.
The following APIs and facilities may not be used:
Enterprise JavaBeans
Servlets,
JSP technology, or any other web-oriented APIs
NIO, the New IO facilities
Java DataBase Connectivity (
JDBC) and SQL
Java IDL API and CORBA
Third party software libraries or tools (such as browsers)
Is this now out of date? Do you get instructions that allow NIO when you download the assignment?