In my 10 year tracking of the SCJP Sun has never released a new version of the exam without previously announcing that there would be a beta test period.
There's nothing official yet, but for those interested, you can get the specs for Servlets 2.5 and JSP 2.1 here. If you want to know what's new, you can try the following pages :
Wow.. so many upgrades exams. I guess the new SCDJWS will be coming out soon, too. Sigh.. I don't have time to upgrade all my certs
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Adam Mazurek
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Hmmm I can't understand anything of what you wrote . Also on Sun's page I see no info about new version of SCWCD exam. Maybe you know the time of announcing the new exam version? I am very suprised that Sun announced new version of SCJP (6) (which is really nothing new in case of objectives - some subtle differences) but nothing about SCWCD 5.
There no are official information, on CertManager (http://www.certmanager.net/sun), link to Certification Progress, the new version is already listed, though. If you have a netId on CertManager, make your login and see that.
Originally posted by Timothy Sam: Now this is really making me feel lazy...
How so? SCWCD 5 won't make anything from SCWCD 1.4 obsolete. Any studying you do for 1.4 will be perfectly valid for either exam. Don't give yourself an excuse to be lazy!
Jothi, yes, you would be able to take a beta if there is one. I plan on sitting for it myself and I already have two versions of SCWCD under my belt. Again, that could still be months and months from now... assuming the SCWCD 5 ever truly comes to fruition.
Charles Lyons
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How so? SCWCD 5 won't make anything from SCWCD 1.4 obsolete. Any studying you do for 1.4 will be perfectly valid for either exam.
More than that, how much would you care to wager that the 5 objectives are identical to those of the 1.4 exam?
Good news is all current exam study material would still apply - bad news is that I have no idea how employers will view exams with identical objectives and different names. Bad news for publishers is that the titles on current books will be wrong (like mine, which says SCWCD 1.4!). That all seems like a very confusing state of affairs!
Not sure if there will be a Beta or not... it's tipped there will be no objective changes and Sun have been putting additional questions in the real exams recently (as many on the Ranch have commented: they have received additional unmarked questions in their exams), presumably to gauge the quality of new questions. Both suggest the prolonged process of a Beta might not be necessary.
Charles Lyons (SCJP 1.4, April 2003; SCJP 5, Dec 2006; SCWCD 1.4b, April 2004)
Author of OCEJWCD Study Companion for Oracle Exam 1Z0-899 (ISBN 0955160340 / AmazonAmazon UK )
Mikalai Zaikin
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Originally posted by Charles Lyons: More than that, how much would you care to wager that the 5 objectives are identical to those of the 1.4 exam?
Hi ! Charles !
Could you post a link to the new SCWCD 5.0 objectives ?
is there a direct route to scwcd 1.5... I dont think so..from the certmanager link it looks am able to apply only for scwcd1.4 and there is upadate route from scwcd1.4 ..what do you think of this?
Originally posted by Ketan Khairnar: is there a direct route to scwcd 1.5... I dont think so..from the certmanager link it looks am able to apply only for scwcd1.4 and there is upadate route from scwcd1.4 ..what do you think of this?
Ummmm... CertManager says:
(310-084) Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 Upgrade Exam. (310-083) Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5.
Did you miss that part? :roll:
Elton Kuzniewski
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Originally posted by Ketan Khairnar: from the certmanager link it looks am able to apply only for scwcd1.4
I think that this is because the new version isn't official yet. So nobody can't be able to make it.
Whatever it is, with or without jsf, I am glad, Head First is coming out with a book for it.
Krishna D. Bhat
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Hey,
Im planing to take SCWCD. When (310-091) Sun Certified Business Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 will be released??? any idea?
Thanks, Krishna
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Krishna D. Bhat
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Sorry I wanted to ask: When (310-083) Sun Certified Web Component Developer for the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5. will be released??? any idea?
The new exam doesn't have any new objectives or topics
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It's chinese new year next week. In addition to prosperity, I will also wish that the new SCWCD includes jsf (its a stretch, and unlikely, but hopefully portlets too).
Michael Raymond Jr.
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Originally posted by Elton Kuzniewski: The Sun was launching a new version of SCWCD.
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. Also on Sun's page I see no info about new version of SCWCD exam. Maybe you know the time of announcing the new exam version? I am very suprised that Sun announced new version of SCJP (6) (which is really nothing new in case of objectives - some subtle differences) but nothing about SCWCD 5.
