Aiming for SCDJWS: Resource List

Below is the list of some Important Resources for SCDJWS Exam:
1) Web Services Using NetBeans 6.0
2) Web Services Programming (with Passion!) Hands-on Online Course
3) Web Services Tips by Łukasz at http://jee-bpel-soa.blogspot.com/
4) Metro Web Services:

• Metro Home Page
• Metro Overview
• Java Web services: Introducing Metro
• Create a Metro JAX-WS Web service using GlassFish Tools Bundle for Eclipse
• A Common Ant Build File for Metro-Based Services and Clients

5) AXIS2

• JAXB and JAX-WS in Axis2

6) JAXB

7) WS-Security

• Axis2 WS-Security basics
• Axis2 WS-Security signing and encryption

8) WSDL

• Converting WSDL 1.1 to WSDL 2.0

9)  CodeRanch.com: Web Services Forum
10) CodeRanch.com: SCDJWS Forum

Good Articles:
A birds-eye view of Web services

WebCast: Why You Should Consider Moving from Red Hat To Solaris

Today I go through this Sun webcast about shifting from RedHat to Solaris 10. Its really nice and informative webcast. You must listen to have some good impression of Solaris 10. I have SOLARIS with me from last 2 months but in dust. Will get it out and install it now to explore it more.

Speaker: Larry Wake, Group Manager, Solaris Operating System, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Length of program: 11 min
Watch this webcast.

You can also get Free Solaris from here.

Article: Load-balancing Tomcat with Apache

One of the good and detailed article about Load balancing using Tomcat, Apache Web Server and JMeter is published at theServerSide(dot)com by Avneet Mangat.

It says - "This article discusses load balancing in the context of a web application. The application is accessed using https, requires a user to login and some user specific information is stored in session."

Read it here. Via: theserverside(dot)com

Spring Framework - 1

This is a nice article by Thomas Risberg about very basics of Spring Framework. Its must-to-read for every Spring enthusiastic to start. It covers environment setup, development, configuration, unit testing and database support in application.

Read it here Via [Springframework.org] Thanks Thomas Risberg.

Create Installer for Java Application

Today, I came across a good article mentioning how to convert your java application into a installer and distribute it. There is an option to add JRE, obfuscate the code and make .exe of java programme in that.

Read it here. Via [javazing] Thanks Sergey Nechaev.

Implementing a Solution Using EJB 2.1

This is a very nice and detailed article of how to use EJB as solution provider.
Have a look here

Other EJB Stuff: Deploy EJB Application

Journey to Design Pattern - 1

This is my first article in design patterns. Now onwards, will study one DP at a time. Today is Inversion Of Control Pattern. This is very simple and good example to understand IoC.
Read here: Design Better Software with the Inversion of Control Pattern

Other Ref Articles(Still Reading):
Inversion of Control Containers and the Dependency Injection pattern
The Spring Framework

Finally got NB6 (NetBeans6 - m10)

Wow..I have just met NB6 and falls in love. Got it from here and was surprised with so easy and smooth installation steps.  It installed Base IDE, Java IDE, web and Java EE, Mobility pack, UML, SOA and Ruby Stuff. Runtimes include GlassFish v2 Build53 Server(waiting to explore it more), Apache Tomcat 6.0.13, Open ESB2.0 Beta 2 Build 070627_2 and Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 patch EA build 20.

My NB6 life long journey has just started..!!!

Read more: NetBeans IDE - Intro  NetBeans Home  NetBeans UserFAQ

Top 10 Reasons to Switch to NetBeans

Back To Blog

I'm back with more java stuff for blog. In mean time, heard a lot about Flex and NetBeans 6 m10. Will start with few NetBeans stuff, some mashups, SOA demo and using some cool features of currently most popular java IDE. Later will do some practice in Flex. So keep watching posts here.

Packaging EJB 3 Applications

Confused about packaging and deployment of EJB applications? What to put in jar,ear OR war files? This is really a detailed and useful article regarding application packaging and deployment. The article also provides critical information on class loading, so that you can appreciate why the archives are packaged as they are. This is intended to provide you a better understanding of the packaging requirements for EJB that include entities.

Read full Article here.