SCWCD Links at JavaRanch

1Z0-899 Oracle Certified Expert, Java EE6 JavaServer Pages and Servlet Developer

1Z0-858 Oracle Certified Professional, Java EE 5 Web Component Developer (former SCWCD 5)

Also see ScwcdFaq and ScwcdWallOfFame

1Z0-899 OCE Java EE6 Java Server Pages and Servlet Developer

Objectives and Documents

Official exam page: Oracle Certified Expert, Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 6 JavaServer Pages and Servlet Developer
Spec: JSR-000315 JavaTM Servlet 3.0 (Final Release)
Spec: JSR-000245 JavaServer Pages 2.2 and Expression Language 2.2 (Maintenance Release)
Spec: JSR-000052 JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library Specification (Maintenance Release 2)

Notes and Information

General Information about the exam
Ranchers who have passed sharing their experience on how to prepare for the exam:
Piotr , Oleksiy ,Piyush

Current Books

OCEJWCD Study Companion: Certified Expert Java EE 6 Web Component Developer (Oracle Exam 1Z0-899) - 3rd Edition (formerly SCWCD Study Companion) by Charles Lyons JavaRanch Bunkhouse Review (1st Edition) | Another Reader's Review (2nd Edition) | Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk

Mock Exams

API

Java EE 6 API

Free Servers (supporting JEE 6 Web Profile)

1Z0-858 OCP Java EE 5 Web Component Developer (SCWCD 5)

Objectives and Specs

(Yes, SCWCD 5 uses the J2EE 1.4 specs and API. It doesn't matter what else you may have seen/read/heard. Just trust us.)

API

J2EE 1.4

Free Servers

Tomcat 5.5 (Note that Tomcat 6 and 7 implement newer versions of the Servlet/JSP API than the exam deals with, so you're better off using Tomcat 5.)

Older Books

Second Edition - Head First Servlets & JSP by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates purchase | this edition fixes errata, includes a few minor topics like dynamic attributes, and has a new mock exam | reviews of the 1st and 2nd edition | Errata

First Edition - Head First Servlets & JSP by Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates reviews | errata | Supplement: Tutorial on Dynamic Attributes

Sun Certified Web Component Developer Study Guide by David Bridgewater editor's home | sample chapter and errata

SCWCD Exam Guide with Java EE 5 by Kunal Jaggi editor's home | author's home

Other books

Mock exams

Have a look at ScwcdMockTests for a list of free and commercial mock exams.

Rancher Notes

Marcus Green's Tutorial
Mikalai Zaikin, also available in pdf: letter-size or A4-size
Frederic Esnault 1.4
PeabodyOnScwcdPatterns
Study sheets for all the APIs and Study example of a very full web.xml by Ashok Kumar Babu
Kalaivanan Durairaj
ScwcdHints by Jothi Shankar Kumar
Sample web.xml and TLD by Michael John
Dale Seng's PowerPoint slides: JSTL Animation, Servlet Listeners
Frits Walraven: Summary of Study Guide (David Bridgewater) , also in pdf
Summary of APIs and XML syntaxes by Mohammad Albaba

Miscellaneous

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