At this point anything is conjecture.
The SCBCD 1.3 went live in August 2003 and it also is the easiest to update as it is only concerned with the
Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 (JSR 220) specification which includes the
Java Persistence API.
The SCDJWS went live in July 2004 and is much more difficult to update as there are so many specifications to consider and possibly more specifications to add. And the SCDJWS was a royal pain to create in the first place (
Head First book for SCJA)
Originally posted by Bert Bates:
We helped Sun in the early planning stages for their course and with the exam objectives - it was a nightmare! Planning that normally takes a couple of weeks, took almost 6 months
Judging by the traffic in the forums I'd say that there is more interest in the
SCEA certification than there is in the SCDJWS, so the SCEA may actually get updated before the SCDJWS. Also the changes in web services technology are much more evolutionary than revolutionary so the SCDJWS is still
testing a good spectrum of basic knowledge even though the specs tested aren't the most current. Furthermore the development of web services technology is still far from plateau-ing, so any update will be (again) relatively quickly perceived as "antiquated" .
All these factors give Sun the incentive to delay updating the SCDJWS for as long as possible � possibly into the next Java EE (6) version.