Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology Study Guide

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Summary: All you need tp pass the Architect Certification
Review: Not only it's one of the best overviews of Java Archtitecture issues I've ever seen, it's the only you need to pass the first part of the architecture exam. I read the whole book in less than 2 hours the morning before the exam which was enough to get 100% on the majority of the test sections. It's a real art to write succinct, brilliant tech books, and this one definitely succeeds at it. And the design pattern section is absolutely superb, up-to-date, relevant, intuitive examples!

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Summary: Mistakes, errors, typos
Review: Reading all the other reviews I just HAVE to warn everybody else about a big problem with this book: it's full of mistakes. Not just simple ones, but some fundamental ones as well. ONLY read this book to get an idea of what the exam will tell you, but get the real information somewhere else. The "review questions" were even worse. Many were more an exercise in your understanding of the english language than a question on the subject, especially those of chapter 2. But the most unforgivable mistake is a question where the answer starts with "We can assume that...". Pardon me? Anybody who calls himself an experienced architect knows Rule One: NEVER make assumptions. Making assumptions is the single most effective way of screwing up a project. To make a long story short, just read the index. That should help enough, and will at least not hurt you either.

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Summary: Very Superficial
Review: Simply introduces the terminology & the basic concepts

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Summary: the Title for the book is wrong
Review: the name of the book should be Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for J2EE Technology Study Guide instead of Sun Certified Enterprise Architecture for J2EE Technology Study Guide.

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Summary: Objectives missing
Review: There are no information on 3 exam objectives: Common architectures, Legacy connectivity, and Messaging. That is why I give the book 2 stars. This book is ONLY useful as a study guide, and as such it must be complete.

The objectives that are covered, are covered in a very short and consise way, which is fine for a study guide, but is not enough if you really want to learn the topic.

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Summary: Covers some stuff but don't expect much of it
Review: This book do cover some stuff you need to know to pass the certification exam , like firewalls , common architrecture , some information about security and localization . But it's a very badly written book , contains a lot of simple bugs like : book says that the name of interface which session bean has to implement is javax.ejb.Session ( not javax.ejb.SessionBean ) . I still found this book useful for the exam itself but I will never use this book as a referense .

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Summary: Doesn't cover all the topics
Review: This book doesn't cover all the chapters.But the topics like security,design patterns,protocols,common architectures are very concise and clear.But you have to depend upon other materials for the other topics.

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Summary: This is just a road map
Review: This book gives you just a road map to the exam. Concepts are not cevered in detail. The title is very misleading - It should be probably named as "Roadmap to J2EE Architect Exam".

Please do not rely on this alone
SR

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Summary: Decent as a guideline only
Review: This book has very little content in terms of J2EE itself. The title is very misleading - this cannot in itself be a study guide for the exam. To tell you truthfully, I am dissapointed with the book and would not recommend anyone to buy this book as anything more than a objectives refresher. This is an unbiased review - I am a software engineer planning to take the test in about a month. If you are planning to take this exam skip this book - it didn't help me much in my preparation and I'm sure you will be hearing the same from others who have bought this book.

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Summary: It's like cliff notes ...
Review: This book is a light overview of critical topics.
It's like cliff notes to the certification book you
should have read. It will direct you to the areas of
concern but, you will need other resources. ...