Rating: 
Summary: not that useful
Review: It is nice book for those who are very beginner in Java programming. Maybe for them this book would be useful if not for preparation of the exam then for some java reading. For folks that have intermediate knowlege of Java, this book is absolutely not needed. You'd better to spend your money elsewhere, honestly.
This book does not give you virtually anything, just feeling that you made you first step - started spending money for the expensive exam.
I am giving this book 3 stars only on the account that I liked thread examples, they are just funny. Note: I found multithreading issues that arise during the exam preparation being much more complex comparing with how they are illuminated in the book. The book takes simplistic approach to everything.
Conclusion: buy, if you have extra money, read if you have extra time. If you don't have either of them - just skip.
Rating: 
Summary: Good step by step...
Review: It shows everything you have to know. It's well written and easy to understand. Definitely a big help for getting SCJD. Even you're already Java programmer, reading this book will give you time to refresh your memory and organize your knowledge.
Rating: 
Summary: Don't be in a hurry to Buy this book
Review: Mere waste of space. Lot of material like coding conventions, we can find in Sun's website. Unnecessary screens occupy most of the space(Funniest thing is it expalins how to set the classpath in windows). Top of all, you cannot do your current project using 1.4. SO wait untill the Sun's next SCJD1.4 comes and then only consider buying this.
K P
Rating: 
Summary: Good book
Review: Nice, hard, technical book: gave my details on all the stuff I needed. I looked at some of the other books out there, and this one was the only one that seemed current and focused.
Rating:
Summary: The best
Review: right to the point, no garbage, usefull for later, good reasoning.
excellet book
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Summary: Great book.
Review: Some of the reviews here have been pedantic and a little purile. They have picked fault with coding conventions like using 'new String("Hello")' rather than just "Hello". What they seem to miss is the SCJD is not an excercise in efficiency, but in project development the way Sun think it should be done. Its far more important that code is readable and consistent with Sun standards than to produce clever code that is hard to read or does things 'your own special way'. Noone is going to compare millisecond responces on your classes, but they are going to look at the source.Here is my take on this book: Its great. It delivers exactly what it says on the cover : "Prepare for the SCJD exam ....". For J2EE developers like me that have never actually made their own database or server it is an invaluable and easy to follow guide. It provides clear instructions on running your project, packaging it and setting up all the little details that you might not have needed when running your servlets on Oracle 9i. If you are a threading expert, who makes RMI based apps every day, and can create swing interfaces in your sleep, then why do you need a book to pass this exam anyway? If one or two areas are weak because your a JDBC user, or your front ends are usually JSP pages, but your OOD capabilities are good, and your java knowledge is good (as a SCJP should be), this book will help smooth the ride and give you confidence in your ability to finish the assignment. But more than anything, this book gives you a damned good idea what to expect on the assignment. And that is worth its weight in gold.
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Summary: Great book.
Review: Some of the reviews here have been pedantic and a little purile. They have picked fault with coding conventions like using 'new String("Hello")' rather than just "Hello". What they seem to miss is the SCJD is not an excercise in efficiency, but in project development the way Sun think it should be done. Its far more important that code is readable and consistent with Sun standards than to produce clever code that is hard to read or does things 'your own special way'. Noone is going to compare millisecond responces on your classes, but they are going to look at the source. Here is my take on this book: Its great. It delivers exactly what it says on the cover : "Prepare for the SCJD exam ....". For J2EE developers like me that have never actually made their own database or server it is an invaluable and easy to follow guide. It provides clear instructions on running your project, packaging it and setting up all the little details that you might not have needed when running your servlets on Oracle 9i. If you are a threading expert, who makes RMI based apps every day, and can create swing interfaces in your sleep, then why do you need a book to pass this exam anyway? If one or two areas are weak because your a JDBC user, or your front ends are usually JSP pages, but your OOD capabilities are good, and your java knowledge is good (as a SCJP should be), this book will help smooth the ride and give you confidence in your ability to finish the assignment. But more than anything, this book gives you a damned good idea what to expect on the assignment. And that is worth its weight in gold.
Rating:
Summary: If you're serious about passing the exam, buy this book
Review: This book has the strongest solutions set of any SCJD book, bar none. Instead of offering vague advice, and trying to be all things to all people. It focuses on the SCJD, and offers complete solutions that are well explained, founded on strong computer science principles, and fully explored in the sample project.
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Summary: The Sun Certified Developer Exam
Review: This book provides compelete guide line for SCJD exam.
Offers valuable insight into the core material covered within the Sun
Certified Developer (SCJD) exam.Introduces the newest features made
available by the J2SE 1.4 release and offes discussion of logging,threads,
NIO, RMI, regular expressions, Swing and more.
After preliminary overview of the SCJD exam project requirements, readers
are introduced to a sample project that will be devloped throughout the book,
with each project component developed alongside the relevant new J2SE 1.4
feature.Which helps to understand better.
Sample chapters, Downloadable source code and table of contents are aviailable
on line.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent resource to become SCJD certified
Review: This book provides fundamentals with which to begin the design and coding of the SCJD exam project. I found the chapters on RMI and MVC to be the most valuable. The coverage of Swing is very good and contains information for designing the user interface much easier. Overall, this is THE book to use as your primary resource when working toward SCJD certification. Also, be sure to search for JavaRanch on the web. It is an invaluable resource.
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