Joy Rose

I'm curious too. Wondering why Advanced developers wouldn't find much if its really for people who know Java looking to upgrade. I think it's really for beginners based on the contents.

The site said:
Who this book is for

This book targets the following groups of developers:

Newcomers, skilled (to some degree) in other programming languages but with no previous exposure to Java
Intermediate Java developers, skilled in the fundamentals of Java prior to Java 7 and looking to increase their understanding of Java 7 language/API changes
All developers looking beyond standard Java, who want to leverage Java 7 to create mobile apps via Android
Even advanced Java developers may find a few items of interest.

It does seem a bit of a hodge-podge of topics, albeit ones of current interest to me. Can you explain how you came up with the title?

Thanks.
Joy

Jeff - I just wanted to let you know how much I love your Agile Java book. It helped me learn the right way to code instead of just the fundamentals of Java. I still turn to it as a reference. Good luck with Agile in a Flash!

Do you expect it to be purchased by people teaching Agile as opposed to developers themselves? That's what it sounded like. A coach's tool.

Sérgio Lopes wrote:hi everybody

I was looking at the exam objectives and noted that 3 topics disappeared:

http://www.sun.com/training/catalog/courses/CX-310-065.xml

the three topics that were there before are:

"Develop code that declares both static and non-static methods, and - if appropriate - use method names that adhere to the JavaBeans naming standards. Also develop code that declares and uses a variable-length argument list."

"Develop code that serializes and/or de-serializes objects using the following APIs from java.io: DataInputStream, DataOutputStream, FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, ObjectInputStream, ObjectOutputStream and Serializable."

"Given a scenario, write code that makes appropriate use of wait, notify, or notifyAll."

Bert Bates wrote:Hi Guys,

I got some news from Sun concerning the updates to the SCJP 6 exam. I shared the details over here:

https://coderanch.com/t/458104/Programmer-Certi...o-concerning-updates-SCJP-exam

hth,

Bert

Bert,
Does this mean that the objectives that Sergio noticed were missing are no longer covered on the SCJP 6 exam?

Thanks!

The SCJP Question of the Day has been down now over a week. Anyone know what the deal is?