OCMJEA badge and diploma

On Friday morning I received the diploma and the badge for OCMJEA from Dublin(Ireland). It was quite fast how Oracle managed to send me the package, I confirmed the address only on Tuesday and Friday morning the package from Oracle arrived, they announce me that I passed all steps on Monday morning. The date of certification seems to be the date when I downloaded the assignment for step 2. I'm happy now and I really want to apply what I learned and to set the standard for excellence :).

Oracle Certified Master Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect passed today

Today I received a notification from Oracle that I have passed the Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect certification and I'm among the elite 1% of certified Java professionals who have gone on to achieve the Java Enterprise Architect certification :) I completed all four steps required and I'm very happy now after a long term motivated study :) It was a lot of learning and trying different uml tools, running snippets of code and most important thinking about problems that arise in enterprise architectures.

Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 5 Enterprise Architect OCMJEA (SCEA5) part1 passed

On 29 October 2011 I passed OCMJEA part 1, it was quite tricky exam but I enjoy it and everything went fine, I also completed required hands on training and subscribed for part 2 assignment which I must complete until may 2012.
I'm very happy now:).

Developing Applications for the Java EE 6 Platform Oracle training

This week I completed this training from Oracle. It was a pleasure to listen and do some exercises with Netbeans and Glassfish. The course was quite expensive but I chose it for mandatory course attendance requirement in case of jee architect certification.

Design Patterns

 

I decided to start study for SCEA part 1 with design patterns, I will post my study notes for each pattern. Let’s start with  listing GoF patterns and j2ee patterns (I don’t find any new patters introduced to jee 5 so all j2ee patterns apply to jee).

Purpose	Name
Creational	Factory Method
	Abstract Factory
	Builder
	Prototype
	Singleton
Structural	Adapter
	Bridge
	Composite
	Decorator
	Facade
	Flyweight
	Proxy
Behavioral	Chain of responsibility
	Command
	Interpreter
	Iterator
	Mediator
	Memento
	Observer
	State
	Strategy
	Template Method
	Visitor

 

 

JEE Patterns:(jee patterns catalog)

SCJP 6

From January I'm Sun certified programmer for java se 6, after a week I received the badge and the big diploma in a mail.
I read only from SCJP Study Guide Katherine Sierra, Bert Bates and I use the simulator (free) from examlab.tk, and javaranch forums (very helpful). It was not an easy exam and you must prepare carefully, study each topic with maximum attention.

Next step (4me): SCEA (Sun certified enterprise architect) I will start soon to study for SCEA, I'm not so confident because current scea is outdated the new JEE 6 specs are here from December 2009, but the update certification I think will appear more lately, another concern is about oracle that own sun now how will they modify the scea...will they focus more this certf on their products ? will they constrain further jee evolution to own view ?...and how valuable will be this cert on the market ?
However I think prepare for scea is a very good reason to be motivated to learn essential sw arhitecture topics ...