Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
End of Patterns for e-Business
Well, the P4EB exam was last week, so that wraps up that module – unless something goes terribly, terribly wrong and I have to resit! The exam deviated from the previous years’ exams quite a bit. In two parts, the first part being pretty much just bookwork, the second part being a choice of three [...]
Revising for P4EB Exam
I feel revision for the Patterns for e-Business exam is going pretty well. There are some interesting questions to answer, such as describing the difference between the Strategy and State patterns. That one’s absorbed a fair bit of thought to get my ideas to some degree of clarity and conciseness. My revision schedule has settled [...]
Fixing WebContent Problems in Eclipse
By default, a ‘Dynamic Web Application’ project in Eclipse will put the non-code resources (pages, WEB-INF, META-INF, etc.) in a folder under the project called WebContent. Exporting .war files or publishing to a server works just fine, as Eclipse knows what WebContent represents, and what should be done in order to deploy it. The trouble [...]
No Building Web Applications
I tried the first couple of weeks of the Building Web Applications, but I won’t be continuing with the module. I was hoping that there’d be some deep insight into the pros and cons of the Java web applications and the JSF framework and RESTful Web Services, but it was pretty clear that we weren’t [...]
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Studying for SCJP?
I was recently quizzed about prep for the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam, so here’s a quick rundown of the resources I found useful and tips I picked up when I was studying for SCJP 5. All in, it cost me around £200 and took just under four months. I can recommend the following resources: [...]