Tonio Morelli

Hello,

I have a question about my web services client. I have a static wsdl file that I use to generate a client with wsimport. From what I see in the generated code, the endpoint URI can only be described with a reference to a wsdl document, but I would like to have the URI of the endpoint stored in a property file somewhere or configured in my web.xml for other environments (test, acceptance, prod).

Is there a way to dynamically set the endpoint URI for a wsimport generated client?

Any help would be appreciated,

-Tonio

I too used ONLY the Head First book and got 88%.

Victor, thanks for the European perspective. I agree with all of that. I shouldn't need the certifications actually to get a job as I already have a fair amount of experience on my CV, but I'm taking the certs on the off chance that it will move my CV up a few places on the pile at a potential employer and hopefully get me an interview. I just took the last couple of years off to study a bunch of non-technical stuff at the local university (French language, culture, history, and philosophy), so I also need to have at least something on there to tell a potential employer that I still know what I'm doing technically.

Thanks to everyone for their responses - and thanks to Bert and Kathy for their book. I wish you were planning a Head First for web services! I estimate I'll have to soak in at least three times the amount of material for that one since there is no full focused guide book like yours available. (Ugh!)

Congratulations, Dilip!

I think I'm going to start studying for the Web Services test, and probably the Enterprise Architect after that. Both of those are going to take a lot longer, so I'll probably have to actually find a job before I get too far. I'm trying to get as many certs as I can before heading back to work. I'm hoping to get a good six month project here (in the US) and then start looking for a job in Europe.

Does anyone know if these tests carry real value in Europe?

Oh, sorry, Wolfgang. Oxford index cards are just plain white cards. I just write a question on one side and the answer on the other. Stuff like, "What 'bean things' can you NOT do in the ejbActive() or ejbPassivate() of an Entity bean?" When I review my stack of cards I just try to get the correct answer. If I get it right, I put the card on the 'answered' stack, if not, I put the card on the back of the 'not yet answered' pile. I keep going through the cards until I answer each one correctly. I just do this so that by the time I get to the end of the book I haven't forgotten what I learned at the beginning!

To answer Victor's question, I studied between 6 and 8 hours a day, not including the frequent breaks and exercise. I would have studied longer, but by the end of each day my brain was mush - I could hardly think at all. At the beginning of the day I would do a four hour session, then take a long walk or go work out, then do one to two hours of study, then take a short walk and if my brain was still working try another half hour to hour.

Also, here is the link for how I studied.

Hi Dean!

I passed the SCBCD yesterday with a score of 88%. I only used the Head First book with no other resources. I got a 70% on the practice exam at the end of the book the day before I took the real test.

I hope this helps.

Yes! Now on to Web Services.

For those considering studying for this one, here's what I did:

For materials I used ONLY the Head First book and flashcards (Oxford index cards) that I made as I went. The study time was exactly twelve days - the same as I took for the web components test. I created flashcards for any piece of information that I had even a marginal chance of forgetting as I read the book, and I ran through the flashcards each morning before beginning to study, and in the evening before bed. I had about 400 cards at the end. I covered about 50 - 70 pages a day depending on the topic. I spent maybe half a day reviewing after finishing the book, and I did not do any mock tests other than the one at the end of the book (which I got %70 on). The test is for two hours, but I finished in about 55 minutes. I could tell I was going to pass after the first 10 questions, so the rest of the test was a breeze (whew!).

I had full time to study, so you probably couldn't do this if you, say, work for a living, unless you are already somewhat familiar with the material (I knew nearly nothing about EJB's before beginning)

I hope this helps those of you considering this one!

But find is a real, possible method name in the Home interface, isn't it? And the other methods in the list are also real existing methods. They don't stand for any kind of pattern, so who would believe that they're really saying that?

OK, my point isn't to bash the mock exam makers. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything obvious in my knowledge - the mock exams always have errors of various degrees. But if anyone knows why I'm definitely wrong about this, please pipe up - I'm all ears!

Hello,
I'm taking the test tomorrow (yikes!) and I'm having a problem with a mock question from the HF book:

4. Which method(s) can be run by a CMP bean in a pooled state?

A. ejbLoad()
B. ejbFind()
C. ejbStore()
D. ejbCreate()
F. ejbHome()

I answered only B, but F is considered correct also. I didn't feel that F was a possible method name, as it is a prefix for home business methods, and that would mean the home business method would have no name. I must be missing something. Anybody know where I went wrong?

According to the Head First book, the EJBObject is created per client (p. 224), and the bean is not connected to the EJBObject until a business call on the stateless session bean is made, so I must say that I'm also perplexed - accordingly, there can be no way to get a reference to the EJBObject in create() or remove(). Either the HF book is in error about EJBObjects per client, or it's wrong about getting a reference to the EJBObject in the create() or remove(). I'd really like a definitive answer on which is correct!