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Summary: Good, and yet crap...
Review: Being an experienced web developer I found this book to be pitched at the right level to fill out the blanks in my knowledge. The author explains up front that the book is not a comprehensive work on servlets and JSPs, but covers the areas that are on the exam. He also states that you will have to refer back to the appropriate Sun specifications if you want to fill out your understanding - which I found at some points, I needed to do. With further reading lists provided at the end of each chapter this is not a spoon-feeding book - but it does point you in the right direction.The material is well covered and some additional real world information is given. The book's major let-down is the review questions. They are extremely poorly worded - to the point where you question whether the answers you got "right" are actually right. Questions that ask you to pick two answers may actually have one or three when you look them up in the answers section. This is such a tragic oversight that I had to question whether anyone even cast an eye over it in the editing process - a real embarassment for the publisher. The book is not bad, though. Well covered and on the level. However, if you want to see how you are progressing you would do well to use one of the many free sample exams available on the web, because the review questions are so hopeless.
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Summary: mediocre
Review: I found the practice questions at the end of each chapter to be disappointing. Some were irrelevant to the test, many were confusingly or ambiguously worded and some of the answers given were flat-out wrong. If you only want to use one book I recomment SCWCD Exam Study Kit: Java Web Component Developer Certification by Hanumant Deshmukh, Jignesh Malavia.
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Summary: mediocre
Review: I found the practice questions at the end of each chapter to be disappointing. Some were irrelevant to the test, many were confusingly or ambiguously worded and some of the answers given were flat-out wrong. If you only want to use one book I recomment SCWCD Exam Study Kit: Java Web Component Developer Certification by Hanumant Deshmukh, Jignesh Malavia.
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Summary: passed the test using this book
Review: I used two criteria to rate this book. The first is: did it clarify areas where I have weakness - yes, for me it did. Two - did I pass the exam -yes, I did. I consider myself to be an intermediate/advanced java programmer. I also purchased the author's Exam Cram. I felt I needed the more comprehensive Training Guide along with the Exam Cram. I also noticed that one of the editors works for Sun. I felt that added lots of credibility to this book. Since I used both books to pass, I would recommend getting both.
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Summary: Don't Use This Book As The Only Study Source For SCWCD
Review: If you use this book as the only study source, you will be in trouble. The book omits topic Section 7 - Designing and Developing Thread-Safe Servlets. Rely on other certification books - like SCWCD Exam Study Kit or Professional SCWCD Certification. Use this book as a supplement
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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. you will not pass the exam only using this book
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Summary: Don't bother
Review: Sun's certification exams are challenging. They demand careful preparation and thorough study. And they call for careful self-assessment. The book offers only a point-by-point exposition of Sun's own objectives for the exam. While this fidelity to the exam objectives is laudable, it presents very little material beyond regurgitation of the Servlet API, example code written by others and little material of practical use in developing web applications with servlets and JSP. Sun puts much thought into its exam objectives and they strive to make the exams more than mastery of API trivia. This book It seems that the author has little experience with servlets and JSP outside of writing the book and is unable to illuminate why Sun considers its exam objectives are important. I mentioned the certification exams call for careful self-assessment. It easy to wear your Hiliter to a nub but practice exams are crucial testing your mastery and indicating areas of further study. Unfortunately, the three practice exams included in the book haven't even had the passing glance of an editor. Questions call for two multiple choice answers and the answer key gives one or three. Fill in the blank questions are answered in the key as multiple choice. Other answers to questions are flat out wrong. Beyond these obvious errors, a sizeable fraction of the questions are confusingly worded. And then there is the included CD. The book advertises it as containing a "powerful, full-feature test engine." What it neglects to mention is that the engine is a Windows application. Is it so much more difficult to develop a Java test engine that can be run on a variety of platforms? Isn't that the Java way? Or, failing that, mention somewhere in the book the system requirements for the CD?
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Summary: The most successful self-study tool in the market
Review: This certification manual is for Sun Certified Programmers on a Java 2 Platform who are using servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) APIs to develop Web applications using the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The certification consists of one exam and requires Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform status. Readers preparing for this exam will find our Training Guide series to be the most successful self-study tool in the market. This instructional reference is consider as their "one-stop shop" because of its teaching methodology, the accompanying ExamGear testing software, and superior web-site support at User Level: Intermediate, Approx. Page Count: 504
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