Certification book

[Raj Waters]

Hi
Book Title:
Head First EJB
Is the book out in the market? If no, when it is xpected?
yup

[Valentin Crettaz]

This book is written by Kathy Sierra (one moderator of this forum) and bert Bates. The book will be out in a couple weeks. Please be patient because I can tell you: that book rocks
You might find useful information at http://www.wickedlysmart.com

[Pradeep bhatt]

Valentin ,
We also have a book promotion on oct 28, right?

[Billy Tsai]

what other books and resouces can we use to prepare for SCBCD exam b4 that book comes out

[Kavitha Adimurthy]

This site says that the book's gonna be out on the 30th! is it true?
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?cat=18674&dept=3920&product_id=2362248&path=0%3A3920%3A18674%3A18692%3A20259

[Al Newman]

Originally posted by Billy Tsai:
what other books and resouces can we use to prepare for SCBCD exam b4 that book comes out

The EJB 2.0 spec comes to mind.

[Valentin Crettaz]

Originally posted by Pradeep Bhat:
Valentin ,
We also have a book promotion on oct 28, right?

According to http://www.javaranch.com/bookpromo.jsp that's correct

[qadir sabri]

How to participate in this promotion
Qadir Sabri

[Valentin Crettaz]

You just have to come into the forum and ask/answer questions. The four people who will have "participated" the most will receive a free copy of the book

[Billy Tsai]

I have submitted my SCEA part2 assignment and sat the part3 essay exam now I am going to start studying for SCBCD, what other books and resources apart from the EJB2.0 spec can be used to prepare for SCBCD?

[Valentin Crettaz]

Our SCBCD Links page provides some resources that you might find helpful

[Billy Tsai]

should I download the new proposed final draft 2 for 2.1 or Final release for 2.0

[Kathy Sierra]

You definitely need the 2.0 spec and *not* the 2.1 spec. This exam is not using 2.1, because Sun's goal is to NOT certify that you are up on the new spec that nobody is using, but instead to certify that you are *ready* and experienced for work in the real world. The J2EE team (and the marketing folks) know that it will be quite some time before vendor support and -- most importantly -- customer adoption of J2EE 1.4 (EJB 2.1) will be widespread enough to justify testing on that spec.
On the other hand, customers tend to upgrade their servlet/JSP web apps more quickly than their full J2EE /EJB apps, so the SCWCD *will* be testing on the newer specs, when that exam is revised. When the time comes that enough customers have transitioned to EJB 2.1, then the SCBCD will be revised. But that won't be for at least a year!
OK, back to work -- wrapping up the last bits of the book.
cheers,
Kathy

[Billy Tsai]

so basically ejb-2_0-fr2-spec.pdf, Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) Specification 2.0 Final Release 2 is sufficient for the SCBCD exam and covers all the objectives right?

[Manjunath Subramanian]

Originally posted by Billy Tsai:
so basically ejb-2_0-fr2-spec.pdf, Enterprise JavaBeans(TM) Specification 2.0 Final Release 2 is sufficient for the SCBCD exam and covers all the objectives right?

Yes.Check this link http://www.valoxo.ch/jr/cheatsheets.html (thanks to Valentin) to know the EJB spec <-> Exam objectives mapping.
Manjunath