Today i passed the Sun certified Web Component Developer exam in its J2EE 1.4 incarnation. I did the 1.3 more than a year ago and so can compare these two. Some Tips for those interested in taking the 1.4er as well:
- Learn JSP EL (had too many questions on that)
- Learn JSTL core
- Know SimpleTags and Tag-Files
- Be aware of the capabilities added to Filters recently (dispatcher)
- Know the usual basic J2EE-Patterns like Business Delegate, Service Locator, Transfer Object, MVC etc.... (surprisingly many questions from that corner)
- Security, Deployment Model, Lifecyclestuff Listeners & Container-Callbacks like before
and be aware that
- Head First Servlets&JSP is the authorative source of "the big picture"
