Hi All I have a bit of a gripe about this new exam. I don't think that multiple choice questions are any good for those that take them. The reason for taking these exams is to provide evidence to potential employers or current employers that you have the required knowledge within a particular subject matter. The approach to taking multiple choice exams is different to say a practical test. You can learn the subject matter without doing much practical work and pass the exam but when it comes to practical application of your skill you would then struggle. I believe like the SCJD exam with its practical element is the best format as you learn so much more. I know the best approach to taking these exams is to do practical work while you are learning the subject matter, but no books that I have seen actually lead you to finally develop an application i.e. give you practical tests at the end of a chapter or say the whole book. I'm sure this wont change the mind of Sun, to include a project but would those people writing the books include more practical tests and not just multiple choice questions. I am about to do the SCBCD course, does anyone know of a book that has practical tests in it? Regards
Howdy Having trouble mounting the JWSDP folder to Netbeans and it recognising the new libraries. I have mounted 'C:\jwsdp-1.2' and when I try and 'import javax.xml.messaging.ProviderConnection' it doesnt recognise it. Its a newish IDE for me so amd I doing this wrong. Yours !@#'~!!???
Howdy Having trouble mounting the JWSDP folder to Netbeans and it recognising the new libraries. I have mounted 'C:\jwsdp-1.2' and when I try and 'import javax.xml.messaging.ProviderConnection' it doesnt recognise it. Its a newish IDE for me so amd I doing this wrong. Yours !@#'~!!???
Hi Unfortunatly most employers (in London anyway) are not educated in the benefits of someone passing the exam. A brief overview on any CV wouldnt hurt. At the moment I would say its a personal achievement and no more.
Sam Performance doesnt suffer at all. Im sure there is a small time lag. But unless you can do something constructive or less boring than sit around for several nano seconds its not an issue. You need a snapshot of all the data in the JTable to start with. You then need another to check that the seats are still available during the booking process. Then another to show that the seats have been removed for your flight (dont just remove it from the JTable). I did work for a very brief time in a travel agents (Sun cant fail me now!!!) and they do show seats available.
Sam When I booked a flight, I locked the record, checked it had enough seats, if it did reduced the number by the specified amount, returned a success message and called a refresh method that refreshed the GUI. This means that when the flight is booked it takes into account the GUI might be out of date due to another client booking for example all the remining seats. It also refreshes the GUI to show most recent snapshot. Hope that helps,
Hi I would get hold of 'The SCJD exam with J2SE 1.4' by Mehran Habibi, Jeremy Patterson and Terry Camerlengo. This is a good book and shows you how to build the app, it also shows you how to use either RMI or Sockets which is useful, particularly in the exam when you have to justify your choices. There is one problem with the book though. It does essentialy show you how to build the app. If you want to learn more build your app without the book and use Javaranch as a good source. Then read the book to see how they did it. Youll learn more that way. Hope this helps.
Very happy. General Considerations and GUI shot me down, dont care. Thanks Peter, Mark, Eugine, God and my mum. Off on a three month sailing course to become a sailor now!!!
Hi I have just got JBuilder 8 and so far so good, however I cant seem to be able to get it to give me HTML in code options e.g. if I type '<form ' I would expect a drop down list of the possible attributes of a form.> Does ity actualy do this? Thanks for your help
Go sit the exam and wait. They cant mark your work until you have. Not too sure how you check if they have everything. Anyone know how long its taking to mark assignments/exams at the moment?
Treasured Peers I am wrapping everything up for submission, just done my first .jar file (smiles all round) but got an error. The below returns null:- String helpDir = "help" + File.separator; URL file = Class.class.getResource(helpDir + "intro.html"); And this stops my JEditorPane displaying its intro page for the help files. The above line works fine outside of the .jar. Does the whole Fil.seperator bit not work in a .jar, is it a different referencing structure within? Any help will be financialy rewarded.