Ricardo Espírito Santo

Hey guys,

I've just passed the JPA cert with 76%. I was expecting a bit more from the avg marks from the enthuware app.... but It's OK

Done deal.

Vinayak Bhat wrote:Nice that you bought Enthuware. Practice with it. Read Pro JPA 2 by Mike Keith and Merrick Schincariol. Go through JPA specs. that's important. Reading through past experiences of successful candidates helped me a bit.

JPA specs and the book should do for you. and Practice with Enthuware.

Hey thanks for the advice!

I have read pro jpa2 and am starting the specs I'm just finding this one particularly hard to focus on...

Jeanne Boyarsky wrote:Created a forum and now you are in it.

Thanks!!!

Hey guys,

I have done two oracle certifications (scjp and the web components one) and am now studying for the JPA one but I recon I might need your help with it.

For starters I have not yet been able to find the proper forum about it. Then this one just seems sooooo much more boring than the others, to the point that I haven't been able to concentrate and study properly for it. I have bought the enthuware questions today and am giving it another go but would really love some tips and advices =)

Thanks in advance,

Ricardo

Obrigado Roberto!

Thanks bud! On my way to a JPA certification now =)

I did not. "I" (my company) bought the practice exams specified by the oracle certification website and those plus the end of the book one were the only practice exams I did.

I did find the practice exams a bit easier than the actual exam.

No worries mate, this is a forum after all it's made for questions.

No I do not use the j_security_check It's not even a servlet. Its something else...

Well at the minute we are developing a web app with JBoss Seam 2 and tweaked the auth mechanism to perform authentication against both our ldap and an internal jpa mechanism. The actual form itself is just a regular form but we also have the production site on https to difficult an eavesdropper's job. As for the actual password it is encoded with a standard one way system the cipher and password hash are salted and stored both locally and on the ldap system =)

Oh ok I got what you need...

I thought you were trying to understand how it would work conceptually.

In that case try using google code search to look up forms that use those fields: google code search with the j_security_check query

hope that helps ;)

Hey Ali,

public class A { public char[] methodA() { char[] alphas = {'s', 't', 'e', 'a', 'm'}; char temp = alphas[0]; int i = 0; while (i < alphas.length - 1){ alphas[i] = alphas[i+1]; //2 i++; } alphas[alphas.length-1]=temp; return alphas; } public static void main(String[] args) { A a = new A(); a.methodA(); } }
(Save this code in a file called A.java)
worked for me no IDE just plain text editor (vim in linux) and the good old javac

What sort of difficulties is your IDE (which one are you using by the way) presenting?

Hey mate,

You should read the security chapter of the Head First scwcd book! It really explains in a very visual way what are the options around and what are the pros and cons.

I've also found a link to something that might help you: some oracle page

Let me know what you think of it.


Have a nice one,

Ricky

Hey guys,

Congratulations on such a great forum!

Would it be possible to get a new forum under professional certifications for the new Java Persistence API Developer Certified Expert Exam (Oracle certification page)

Thank you,
Ricardo Espírito Santo

Well It's a really hard exam, at least it was to me :p I've finished the HF final book exam and passed it. Then reviewed the things I've failed then went back to reading those chapters. Re-done the end of chapter review questions. Re-read all the bullet points in the book (they are all marked on the final index) And that was about it.

I would recommend memorizing the API, really knowing all the unimportant to real life details such as where is the X method defined: HttpServletRequest or ServletRequest. Knowing all the details about the attribute names in all the tags. It's hard to say more since if I start thinking about it ALL of the book is in there. And even some things aren't such as how do you access the uri that a request came from if it was directed through a request dispatcher...

Also on the final days (weekend) I've found out that reading this (http://library.nu/docs/FR28H7YTS6/SCWCD%20Exam%20Study%20Kit%20Second%20Edition%3A%20Java%20Web%20Component%20Developer%20Certification) quick exam prep provides a more structured view on all the information.

Let me know if you need anything else mate and Good Luck with it.

Passed the SCWCD with 73%

Should have memorized the API a little bit more =)