Amin Rais

Hallo,
Are there any mock exam available ?
Kathy, when will you start writing the book for SCMAD ? ohh.. if only your book is already available then I am quite confidence to take the beta.
[ January 29, 2004: Message edited by: Amin Rais ]

Hi,
I am new comer to J2ME technology, I created a small app which is already working with the Sun's simulator and have created the JAR + JAD file.
My mobile is nokia ngage, I successfully transferred the JAR + JAD file using Nokia PC Suite, then the application is recognized as downloaded.. thus I have to install it (why should I install ? I feel strange since JAR file should be executeable) .. when I install the mobile said that Applcation : System error.
Well I tried to copy the JAR file from Sun Wireless, the file is game.jar as I remember.. the same problem occure.
Maybe some of you have similiar problem ? what should I do to solve this.. ?
Thanks in advance...

Yes... they are right .. my suggestion is take more time, don't be hurry, just analyze which parts did you fail most, then do a lot codes and mock exams exercises.
I also didn't pass the SCBCD Beta exam (My score was only 61%) .. just many days ago I did it with 94%... as long there is a will, there is a way.
[ December 03, 2003: Message edited by: Amin Rais ]

Today I passed SCBCD with score 94%. Special thanks to everyone who had posted and answered questions in JavaRanch.
I got a lot of usefull tips here.
And for the best EJB book authors .. Kathy and Bert.. thanks for the book. It really..really AMAZING !!! Every single question in the exam is covered in this book ...
Also for Valentin, your cheat sheets really help !
My tips are :
1. Read Kathy's book, and do all the mocks there.. the mocks are really helpfull.
2. Get Valentin's cheat sheets, try to remember and understand it with the help of Kathy's book, especially the LifeCycle diagram and Deployment Descriptor.
3. Mock exams at JDiscuss are also good.. there are more than 200 questions there for FREE, it's worth to try.
4. I used INESystem SCBCD exam simulator, it's good even there
are several bugs with the application. It really helped to increase my confidence.. I think I made a good deal, Head First EJB + INESystem SCBCD for around $60. I saved $10 compared if I buy the Best available SCBCD Simulator which cost around $70. Now I have $10 in my saving to buy Kathy's next book.... Head First J2ME ??
Now it's time to prepare for J2ME exam , even it's not out there yet, maybe it's a good time for Javaranch to create the forum for it in the near time.
[ December 01, 2003: Message edited by: Amin Rais ]

String in Java is immutable. So you can't change it instead get the new trimmed String.

In EUROPE it's even more expensive..
I spent 270 EURO + TAX for the SCEA-PART II, it's almostly 300 EUR.
For this SCBCD maybe it will be 170 EURO + TAX. Ohh... 170 EUR
is around 190 USD, and it's not tax included yet !!

Kathy....
Thanks for the reply, your reply is really amazing !
Also for my question in other Thread.
Thanks so much..... now I don't feel confuse anymore

Hopefully you are right....
I am really waiting for this exam, and Kathy's Head-First series are
really great..

Hi,
There is a sample DD :
<assembly-descriptor>
...
<container-transaction>
<method>
<ejb-name>EmployeeRecord</ejb-name>
<method-name>*</method-name>
</method>
<trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
</container-transaction>
Sure we know that all methods belong to EmployeeRecord Bean has Required as trans-attribute.
But lets declare something like this.
<container-transaction>
<method>
<ejb-name>EmployeeRecord</ejb-name>
<method-name>xxx</method-name>
</method>
<trans-attribute>Required</trans-attribute>
</container-transaction>
So only method xxx of EmployeeRecord has trans-attribute Required. Then how about other methods ? which trans-attribute that they have ?
The same question for the Security DD Issue, if I don't have security-role-ref for the other methods, then what role do those methods can be accessed ? (or can be accessed by any role ?)
Thanks for any help.

I think you should learn about Database !!

Thanks for the reply.
I understand what you said in your reply, your explaination is right for Statefull Session Bean.
In Stateless Session Bean, Page 90 of the spec it says that ejbCreate can access EJBObject. On the other hand in page 94 of the spec, it doesn't write EJBObject in the sequence diagram. Thus EJBObject is not available yet... so how can we access EJBObject from ejbCreate then ? this really confuses me...
Any more help ?
[ November 09, 2003: Message edited by: Amin Rais ]

Hi,
In the spec it says that in ejbCreate of Stateless Session Bean, we can get the reference of EJBObject. But as I know when container calls ejbCreate of Stateless it doesn't bind the bean to EJBObject yet.
So how can ejbCreate can access EJBObject then ?
Please give me a light ...
Thanks

Using XSLT + XML rather than JSP has some drawbacks :
1. The transformation is quite expensive process comparable to compiled JSP to Servlet, so it might be slower.
2. You cannot use TagLib in XSLT, instead you have to create a template instead of TagLib. But XSLT language is quite annoying to use when you're building quite complex logic for you tag.
3. The integration with JavaScript is not as perfect as in JSP. As we know Javascript itself it's not really XML.
4. Your application becomes harder to debug rather than JSP.
Of course it has a lot of benefits also as you mentioned... in some cases it's nice to use XSLT and in other case JSP is still better. So my opinion JSP is still needed.
You can try StrutsCX tool, it's quite nice...
[ September 27, 2003: Message edited by: Amin Rais ]
[ September 27, 2003: Message edited by: Amin Rais ]

Thanks, for the info ..
So it's the same as SCEA - Part I from Sun..
Talking about prerequisite, SCJP is also
pre-r for SCJD and SCWCD, but for that we
will get certificate.
So for 483, what is the next certification
that requite it ?

So you mean if we passed the 483 exam, then
we will not get the certificate ??
So what do we get, only a sheet of paper about
our score ? Whoa..