Passed SCWCD 1.4 - 98%

[Gabriel Forro]

Hi,

Yesterday was the big day. It was quite successful
The JavaRanch's community, so You also, who is reading this line, helped and supported me. Thanks for it!

[VP Jain]

Hi Gabriel,

Congradulations!

It's for u i suppose


Please share your preperation stratergy with other ranchers.

Regards
V.Parsuvanath.

[Vishwajit Mankar]

Congrets Gabriel....

Thats really a great score. Please share your preparation process with us. It will a great help. I am planning to appear for exam on 16th December.
Is HFSJ and SCWCD study kit books are enough, or do we need to read spefications for the exam??

Thanks in advance

Vishwajit

[Gabriel Forro]

Hi,

I have used the "HF Servlets and JSP" (read twice) and study the specs as well (mainly jstl core and custom tags). On the last day I went through the JSP and servlet API also to memorize the method signatures, names and return values.
In my opinion the HF Servlets and JSP is enough for the exam. In addition to the info in the book You have to know something about dynamic attributes for the custom tags (it is not covered in the book). The HFSJ is a great book, but be aware, as there are some mistakes. The ones I can remember:

1.
the exception JSP object is Throwable and not JspException
2.
If the argument of the sendRedirect, encodeURL, encodeRedirectURL methods begins with '/', than it is a relativ to the container's root (not to the web application's root)
3.
the <c:remove var="attr"/> removes all attributes 'attr' from all scopes.
4.
${aBean.notAProperty} throws an exception, if aBean is not null and there is not any 'notAProperty' property on the bean.
5.
the

<security-role>
  <role-name>one</role-name>
  <role-name>two</role-name>
</security-role>

is not valid. The security-role tag can contain only one role-name tag. So the

<security-role>
  <role-name>one</role-name>
</security-role>
<security-role>
  <role-name>two</role-name>
</security-role>

is the right one.

In addition to the reading I have created a lot of small web applications on my laptop to try everything what I have read. That is all

[Bert Bates]

Gabriel,

Wow!!! 98% is incredible!

Thanks for the feedback!

- Bert

[Selva Prasad Rajendran]

hey man,

its really a incredile achievement. plz do help me for preparing for myself.

can u plz forward some pdf if u have to my id [e-mail]

[Abhinay Verma]

Congrats Gabriel !!!

And thanks for the tips.

[Prasad Pusapati]

Hi Gabriel,
It Is Really Really Great Score.Thanks A Lot For Your Valuable Tips.

"Good will is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy"
-Marshall Field

[kasun madurasinghe]

Congrats Gabriel,

It's really a very good score . Can U tell me what mock exams did U use?

[Sree Nivas]

Congrats. It's great score.

Could up pl forward if u have any material (ppts, pdfs, docs etc) to my mailid. [e-mail].

I'm planning to take it up shortly.

regards
Sreenivas

[Navneet Dhingra]

Gabriel

Would you plz suggest, which books to start with? I know all basics of Servlets( had read Inside servlets and Jason Hunter) and JSP specs.

But now could u suggest a book for refreshing the core, so that later I could jump to some certificzaation book.

any advice will be appriciated

[Mellihoney Michael]

congratulations

[Juliano Mendes]

Congratulations Gabriel!!!

98% is spectacular!

[Ranjit Jana]

Please look at the notes
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4.${aBean.notAProperty} throws an exception, if aBean is not null and there is not any 'notAProperty' property on the bean.
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Hi,

Wanted to know if this is correct. If Bean is not null and no property in the bean will throw a exception.

If Bean itself is null the result will be null

Somebody please explain this behaviour.

Ranajit Jana

[Jose Esteban]

Originally posted by Ranjit Jana:

Wanted to know if this is correct. If Bean is not null and no property in the bean will throw a exception.

If Bean itself is null the result will be null

Somebody please explain this behaviour.

Ranajit Jana

You are right. Look at JSP 2.0 spec (page 105):
To evaluate expr-a[expr-b]:
- Evaluate expr-a into value-a
- If value-a is null, return null. (This explains the null returned)
...
...
- Otherwise (a JavaBeans object),...
---- If value-b is a readable property of value-a,...
---- Otherwise: error. (This explains the exception thrown)


[ February 27, 2005: Message edited by: Jose Esteban ]
[ February 27, 2005: Message edited by: Jose Esteban ]

[Min Soe]

WOW!!!


SCJP,SCBCD

[Bassam Zahid]

Thats a marvellous score. Please let me have your notes or study material or tips n tricks if possible ?

[Jesus Angeles]

way cool! congrats!