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Summary: Pass the exam in first attempt
Review: This is the must book for those who want to pass the exam in first attempt. Also the book could be used as a reference book for all the important concepts of Servlets/JSP.
Besides, it has 3 practice tests for the exam. If you pass all three of them, the real exam would pass like a breeze...
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Summary: Not a bad book
Review: Hi,I used this book for my exam and it was of good help. Although the book has some grammatical/typos but not as bad. The classfiication of chaperts on test objectives, along with mock test questions make this a good book. Some topics still need to be discussed in details but still the book is concise and crispy. The authors knows the concepts well and given the fact that it is their first book, it is a good effort. Hope this helps
Sunil
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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK FOR SCWCD EXAM
Review: I read this book recently and got certified with 90%. Look no further, this is THE book you would want to pass the exam.
Chapters are neatly arranged and examples given are well suitable to any real life project. Book has EXAM QUICK PREPARATION section which had helped me to quickly run through topics. I also had bought an EXAM CRAM series book on SCWCD and had to return it because of lack of indepth questions and content.
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Summary: Excellent book for your Certification
Review: This is the book that you want if you want to pass your Certification with flying color. I bought Natalie Levi's Java 2 Web Developer Certification Study Guide (from Cybex) and was very disappointed due to the flaws and blurry concepts presented in that book. I stopped reading that book after 4 chapters and switched to this book. I finished reading this book painlessly and grasped all important concepts. Took the exam today and passed it with 94%. Thank you, Hanumant, Jignesh...
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Summary: This book alone helped me pass with 96%!!
Review: This is a great book. The chapters are very well organized and the bulletted information of key concepts in every chapter is really really helpful for last minute reference.
One thing that I want to mention is the style of writing of the authors. This is one book where after each chapter you feel you've really gained something...and you quickly want to move the next chapter to learn more...and long after the exam is over you still feel confident of the knowledge that you've acquired.
The treatment of various servlets and JSP concepts is precise and consistent with the requirements of the exam. However don't get the impression that it does not cover the key concepts in detail.. In fact it does a wonderful job. For example..I had no prior experience with tag libraries before , yet I managed to get a score of 96% on the exam and that too after studying for just two weeks. And my only primary resource was this book and the provided CD.
The three practice tests on the CD are essential for getting a good score on the actual exam.
All in all a great book..well worth your money!!
Best of luck!
Tanay
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Summary: comparative review
Review: SCWCD Exam Study Kit by Deshmukh and Malvia, Manning press
Excellent, and like the cover says- "will use it even after passing"
Gives you everthing and more required to pass the exam.
Only problem is remembering everthing and all the subltlties.
Deffintiely read the book more than once.
J2EE Web Componnet Develoepr Exam trainning guide by Alan Trottier, Que publication.
Decent to good. though not as good as the "Deshmukh and Malvia", it explains
areas that I found confusing from other books. Using only this book should
give you a 50-50 chance of passing the exam.
Java™ 2 Web Developer Certification Study Guide By Natalie Levi, Sybex press
I was concerned by web opinion that this book would of detriment to my passing SCWCD.
Well this book is good for a new certified programmer, or someone with little
knowledge of JSP and Servlets. It provided a great introduction for me (a c
programmer with a little java knowledge) to understand the required concepts and
theory for web app development. but you will not pass the exam only reading this book
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Summary: Good book with a few errors
Review: No doubt this book helped me a lot to pass the SCWCD exam with 91%. If it didn't contain a few annoying errors, I would give it 5 stars, as it is a very well organised, very well written coverage of the exam topics.
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Summary: Great Prep For Exam
Review: I went over this book several times, did all the review questions, and did all the practice tests that came on the accompanying CD. It was well organized into small little chunks so it was easy to grasp concepts, even ones that I was not all that familiar with. Took the exam and scored an 89%. The book was great preparation.
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Summary: Best Available Study Guide/Reference Book
Review: I bought this book to Study for the SCWCD Exam and I there is no doubt that this book helped me pass the exam. However not only did it help me pass the Exam but I also learned a lot of stuff in detail from it which was even better then just passing the exam. The Book is extremely well organized and detailed in regards to the subject matter. My favorite Chapter was the one on Servlet Threading, because I think this book explains this topic better then any other book that I have read. I work as a Servlet/JSP Developer and I will continue to use this book as a reference and dispose of a lot of other books that I have around that don't cover nearly the detail that this book does. My thanks to the Authors for creating such a great book with a lot of detail on a lot of subject matter.
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Summary: Excellent and to the point
Review: I had been doing commercial JSP and Servlets programming for over a year when I got hold of this book. I have read it from cover to cover and attempted all of the questions and I am very impressed. Certification exams have a reputation for covering obscure details of the target technology but I found myself learning things that would have significantly improved my existing code and will definitely go into future systems. Although it is aimed at the Web Component Developer exam it would make a good general JSP book. An example of this came up recently when I was trying to include one file inside another in order to make my pages more modular. The jsp system has two ways of including other files, one described as static and the other described as dynamic. I knew my understanding of the difference was a little shaky an this book gave an easily understandable and concise explanation of the difference, including a good diagram of what happens in terms of code translation and output to the browser. With only two authors the book has a consistency of voice which I would call dry and factual. There are no jokes or distractions in this book, just the facts maa'm, just the facts. The code samples are short and easy to understand, there is no attempt to give examples that would build into real applications, just enough code to illustrate the point under discussion. Many posters at the JavaRanch discussion forum have reported finding this book extremely useful for taking and passing the Web Component Developer exam. It keeps closely to the objectives and the questions are well structured and relevant. If a topic is central to JSP technology but not covered by the Web component developer exam it makes it clear that the information is only included for completeness. An example of this is Chapter 18, filters which is an important new JSP technology but not on the exam. The people who wrote it are behind a commercial exam simulator (JWebPlus) and I suspect that the feedback they received from that has helped create such good quality questions and associated text. The proof reading, layout and accuracy is very good. The entire text of the book is included in pdf format with the included CD. Although it is horrible to read a book from the screen, it is very useful to be able to do a complete search of the text. The CD also contains a copy of tomcat4 and the JwebPlus exam simulator with 3 entire sample exams. If you are less experienced with JSP/Servlets you will find the book starts gently and builds up, without assuming an in-depth knowledge. You will of course need to know about Java before you start. My copy of this book is now well thumbed and "dog eared" and am confident it will get even more grubby and well handled in the future. That's the sign of a good book.
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