Newbie to the Certification Circus

[Torsten Oppermann]

Hello all ! I just wanted to say what a great site/forum this is.
Im planning on getting my OCPJP in February and just started learning towards it (currently at Chapter 3 of the Bates book)
My wish for 2011 is to get the OCP JPA Certificate as well, since im really into Database programming. I hope i can pull it off

My experiences are 3 years of university java and 1 year of software development

Thanks for this great community and hopefully i can participate a little bit

Greetings

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Welcome to JavaRanch

[Ankit Garg]

Welcome Torsten and best of luck.

PS: I like the use of the word Circus

[Deepak Bala]

Welcome to JR, Torsten. Good luck

[Bert Bates]

Welcome Torsten,

Just so we don't ALL have to google it, can you tell us what the OCP JPA is?

Thanks,

Bert

[Torsten Oppermann]

Thank you for your kind words.

The Certification i´m referring to is

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=434

I think its not available yet or in beta:

http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=41&p_exam_id=1Z0_898

I cant wait to get to the Persistence stuff

Sorry for the code styled links, but it wont let me post them in a link since there is the abbrevation for "please" in it

[Bert Bates]

Interesting, persistance... hmmmm.

BTW, it's probably better to leave links as is, and not put them inside code tags.