Certification on WebSphere or WebLogic?

[Yingtang Tang]

I'm a graduate student and close to my graduation. Right now, I'm using WebLogic to do my final project.
I'm planning to have the certification from eithor WebSphere or WebLogic in the near future. No decision yet. Anybody in here can help me to decide which one to take? Thanks a lot for your thoughts.
Yingtang

[Pradeep Chopra]

Dear Yingtang,
Please have a look at my other reply to Marc. It will be of some help.
http://www.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=61&t=000015
Regards and best wishes
Pradeep

[Sebastien Tardif]

Hi,
I leave in Massachusetts. Close to a big Sun and Allaire office. I'm searching for a job. I see a lot more job offer for WebLogic than WebSphere. I also see more people certified WebLogic than WebSphere. I'm currently studing for the WebSphere certification and will probably do the WebLogic just after.
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Sebastien Tardif
Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer
[ March 18, 2002: Message edited by: Sebastien Tardif ]

[Ricardo Polero]

I�ll nice to have both ! and JCEA too !

[Doug Wang]

I think these two share the same part of application server market as well as job market.

[Yingtang Tang]

Hello, friends,
Thanks a lot for your thoughts here.
It seems that holding both is the perfect way to meet the job market. I will consider to have it one by one.
Best regards,
Yingtang

[jeff lau]

Pradeep,

Will JWhiz be working on any BEA WebLogic certification mock exams/tutorial or for the Sun Enterprise Architect?

[Joe McGuire]

I have written and maintain a WebLogic study guide and dynamic mock exam, available at
http://www.getgamma.com/wlscert.html
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Joe McGuire
Sun Certified Java™ 2 Programmer, BEA WLS Certified Developer

[Axel Janssen]

Originally posted by Joe McGuire:
I have written and maintain a WebLogic study guide and dynamic mock exam, available at
http://www.getgamma.com/wlscert.html

Although I won't take bea exam in the near future. Wouldn't it be nice to have some links page assembled like in SCWCD exam???
But I see, there is no moderator in this forum.
Axel
[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: Axel Janssen ]

[Pradeep Chopra]

Dear Friends,
Nice to see so much interest among you all people. Its giving me a lot of learning. Thanks!!!
Jeff: We already have a product for WebLogic Developer Exam (Ver 6.0), check it out at http://www.whizlabs.com/weblogic/weblogic.html
We've plans for SCEA but not yet decided about any dates.
Axel's Idea about links page looks great; why don't you put a new thread requesting for this; It will definitely be noticed then.
I hope this helps.
Regards and best wishes
Pradeep Chopra
Whizlabs Software
http://www.whizlabs.com

[Rony Donald]

Hi,
I will say weblogic; in my opinion it is the most widely used app server in the market. Though websphere is also very close. But in case you need to work on websphere, you should logically go for it.
regards
rony

[Bruce Yu]

I agree with Rony, plus Weblogic is a better tool to study J2EE.
Bruce

[Yingtang Tang]

Friends,
Thanks a lot for your replies. Now it's clear for me. I like to appear for WebLogic first.
Yingtang

[Pierluigi Vernetto]

I have both certifications, and I found the Weblogic easier and more interesting than the WebSphere. In WebSphere certification they ask you many questions very specific to the WAS tools, so it's a bit boring having to learn product-specific stuff. It is also true that in Weblogic they ask you how to configure this and that, but it's a bit more intuitive.
I would suggest then to start with Weblogic, which is more focussed on concepts. Once you have WebLogic, preparing Websphere is only a matter of a couple of (boring) weeks. BTW Weblogic documentation is really cool.
This is my 2 cents experience.
Regards. Pierre

[Yingtang Tang]

Pierluigi,
Your reply is helpful for me. Thanks. Please show often in this forum. We need your help for both certifications.
Best regards,
Yingtang