Peter Cox

Hi there all,

I have two applications; one is a non-struts application that will call my (new) struts application, passing the parameters in via the url:

e.g. http:/wibble.com/app/displayAccount?user=1234&account=123456789

I'd like to display a "loading..." jsp page that immediately calls an Action (needs to use the passed parameters), which will then go off to a back end to retrieve the account information, before finally forwarding to the (success) AccountDetails.jsp

Essentially, I think I need to pull out the parameters passed in and add to the session/request, display the loading jsp, before doing some kind of auto-submit to the next form.

However, I'm a struts novice, so I'd be really grateful for some help as to how I could achieve this (whilst adhering to any best practises also).

Many thanks,

Pete.

Congratulations!

Amit,

The thing about the K&B book is that it won't *teach* you Java, it will teach you the things about the exam you need to know.

It may be worth checking out the Wrox Publication "Beginning Java" - by Ivor Horton (I used that book years ago as a learning aid - it was/is very good). I am sure some other Ranchers can recommend some good publications.

A strategy for the exam? Do as many Mock Exams as you possibly can - they are a great indicator of your progress. You will find that you start to identify the traps that you can fall into, and they also focus your mind to pick out all the obvious errors immediately, without spending 10 minutes working out what the code would actually do (if it didn't have the error!).

Best of luck!

Pete.

Well done (from a fellow passer today)!
[ July 18, 2005: Message edited by: Peter Cox ]

Excellent result! Well done.

Hi Guys,

I've been an anonymous JavaRancher during the entire swotting up process, so I'd like to thank everyone here for such a fabulous resource.

As an "Experienced Java Programmer" (don't you hate that label!), my revision strategy consisted of the K&B book, this site, a lot of mock exams (all the usual suspects) plus the trial exam from Enthuware (which I thought was very good).

The exam itself, in my honest opinion, was considerably easier than some of the mock exams I had taken. Only a few questions had any of the complex traps that I was fearing, so my suggestion to anyone about to take the exam is that if you are scoring 75/80% on the mocks you are definitely ready for the main event.

Thanks once again to all.

Peter.