Joe O'Toole

Hi

I sat and passed the Java 6 upgrade exam today pretty comfortably. Well the content is relatively fresh upstairs I was thinking of doing the Java 7 upgrade exam(Upgrade to Java SE 7 Programmer | 1Z0-805).

Could anyone recommend any notes that relate to specifically the Java 7 features(additions) for the exam.

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Joe

Hi

It appears oracle have changed the policy round sitting the Arch essay exam (IZO-866)

It looks like IZO-865 (assignment) must be completed and graded first. Anyone else notice this?

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Joe

Hi

Just wondering if your sequence flow contains a call to a web service should you handle in the same manner or should you just show a call to your object which calls the Web Service.

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Joe

Thanks Marcelo!

Hi

I am just wondering what people's opinions are on having multiple sequence flow diagrams for the same use case in the assignment. In other words, if a particular use case has a positive and a negative flow, i.e. validation step fails within the use case - should you create multiple sequence flow diagrams.

I don't want to build conditional flows in to the same sequence diagram has I think it looks very messy. Or is it OK just to focus on the positive flow ( in relation to the assignment)

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Joe

Thanks for the responses folks.

So if the SuD receives or sends data to/from an external system, e.g. inventory information via a web service call to an inventory system, in the integration tier I could represent this by Inventory DAO or Inventory Web Service. If I mention Web Service(rather than DAO) should it read Inventory Web Service Client or Inventory Web Service.

Similarily, if I interact with an external system(SYSTEM_A) via messaging, I could represent this as SYSTEM_A DAO or SYSTEM_A JMS Client(or SYSTEM_A JMS)

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Joe

Hi

If the integration tier within the component diagram illustrates how we interface with external systems I am wondering what level of detail we should show in this tier.

In Cade's example he keeps it pretty abstract - Pricing DAO, Inventory DAO, LDAP DAO etc. If you need to interface with an external system called X via JMS, should you just put X DAO in the integration tier or should you reference JMS in the integration layer?

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Joe

Thanks Marcelo

Thanks Marcelo

Hi

Support I have a stateless session bean in my class diagram. My controllers are decoupled from the stateless session bean via the use of a business delegate. If the session bean exposes operations/methods: oper_1,...,oper_N - do people think it is overkill to have the same method names in the delegate. Personally, think it makes things look very cluttered

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Joe

Hi

Just wondering if people think it is necessary to include getters/setters on the entities within the class diagram for their assignment

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Joe

Sorry - had 1 more question on this general theme.

In Cade's example, everywhere he has a dependency he includes the text "uses" on the dependency line. I find this makes my diagram very cluttered looking. Just wondering if people typically follow that approach

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Joe

Great - thanks folks

Hi

I am trying to do the class diagram for my assignment.

The elements in my class diagram are modeled as entities or sessions(@entity and @session). Based on the requirements in my assignment I would like to have a number of "helper" type classes for the sessions. I understand the application service pattern to be "helpers" to sessions. Hence, was wondering if I could stereotype these classes with @application service. Hence I would end up with @entity, @session, @application service?

Thanks in advance

Joe

Thanks Sadanand