Tips
RMH - Richard Monson Haefal - J2EE Web Services
Section 1: XML Web Service Standards
RMH Chapters 2,3
Section 2:
SOAP 1.1 Web Service Standards
RMH Chapter 4
Section 3: Describing and Publishing (WSDL and UDDI)
RMH Chapters 5,6,7,8(Though UDDI is comprehensive, it is good to understand so that JAXR can be easer)
Section 4: JAX-RPC
RMH Chapters 9 thru 15(Covers SAAJ too)
Section 5: SOAP and XML Processing APIs (JAXP, JAXB, and SAAJ)
RMH Chapters 20, 21 for SAX, DOM in JAXP
RMH Chapters 13, 14, Appendix E, F, G for SAAJ
Processing XML with Java by Elliotte Rusty Harold - Chapter 17 XSLT and TrAX
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.5/tutorial/doc/JAXBWorks.html for JAXB
Section 6: JAXR
RMH Chapters 16,17,18,19
Section 7: J2EE Web Services
RMH 9 thru 21, Appendices E, F, G all of which you would have studied already
Section 8: Security
MZ's Guide
Section 9: Developing Web Services
RMH Chapters 22,23,24
Section 10: General Design and Architecture
You can read each
pattern in Core J2EE Patterns book and some GoF Java Companion Book.
or
MZ's guide read it in a nutshell.
To fully appreciate design patterns, you have should have used them somehow
Section 11: Endpoint Design and Architecture
Sun Blue prints on web services - Bu sure to read about Interaction Layer and Processing layer and about Correlation ID to implement Statefull web services
I have purchased whizlabs software which helped a lot.
Bottomline is that first try to read RMH end to end without bothering about objectives. WSDL, UDDI will be a nightmare for a while. After reading for a couple of more times, it should be ok.
After done with RMH, read bluerpints, MZ to round the objectives.
I expected around 80 before going. However I got a bumper prize in Security 100% thanks to MZ. It pushed the score beyond my expectaions. I got 62/69. I missed a couple in XML and SOAP which I feel bad.
It took me 3 weeks in total with one aggressive week.
Good luck guys.
Thanks,
Sathiya