In November, Servlet 3.0 Specification Lead Rajiv Mordani, and I started providing technical advice to the team at Sun developing the successor to theSun Certified Web Component (SCWD) certification exam. This new exam covers Java EE 6, including JSF 2. All this week, the work will continue in the form of an offsite workshop at the mansion.

To help ensure the highest quality exam possible (and thus make the certification as meaningful as possible), I'm asking you to post comments on this blog about what you think should be in the exam. I'll be tweeting from the event all week and continually monitoring the comments.

Thanks for your help!

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6 Comments

  • jpleed3 Newbie

    jpleed3 Dec 18, 2009 6:27 PM

    Since JSP is no longer the primary PDL/VDL of JSF, I think it needs deemphasized in favor of Facelets. Also, since the Java 6 EE Virtual Conference I've been getting into JAX-RS as a replacement for many of my servlets - ones that generate xls's, iText PDF's, KML's, etc. It seems to be making things much easier and I think it needs included. Personally, since I'm not consulting or looking for a job, you won't see me paying $300 for the Sunacle seal of approval. It's much more economical to spend my time working on my black... err... brown belt. ;) //
      • sam_smith Newbie

        sam_smith Dec 15, 2010 11:31 AM (in response to jpleed3)

        The software applications are developed on platforms like .Net, PHP,  Perl, Zend, Python, Silverlight, SharePoint, Ajax and others. The team  of development experts work on an application through analysis and  evaluation of the exact requirement. They build the plan after  consulting the client. They elaborate the strategy before commencing on  the software development process. These services develop projects for  mobile, desktop and Internet based applications. This allows you to  develop projects with far broader reach than your competitors without  the need to use multiple developers.

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      • alexsmirnov Newbie

        alexsmirnov Dec 18, 2009 11:49 PM

        The most popular questions about JSF on forums and support are : 1) unexpected behavior of component that binds "rendered" ( "disabled" ) attribute to a request scope bean that has a different value during render and execute phases. Therefore, JSF does not process these component on form submit. 2) binding component to session/application scope beans that messed up component instances between views and requests. I guess exam has to pay more attention to these cases. //
        • jemiller1 Newbie

          jemiller1 Dec 22, 2009 7:19 PM

          YOU GUYS REALLY DO NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE DOCUMENTATION FOR JSF. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT JAVADOCS. I'M TALKING ABOUT DOCUMENTATION THAT EXPLAINS HOW TO USE IT. For example, how to port a pre-JSF 2.0 custom component that uses JSP to JSF 2.0 with Facelets. Unless I'm missing something, the current documentation flat out sucks and is basically non-existent. Unless you have good documentation to go along with it, it doesn't matter how much you improve JSF. People are not going to use it. You need to do something about the java.net web site also. Will you at least fix the idiotic fact that you have the content mixed between HTTP and HTTPS so that it doesn't prompt on every damn page whether you want to load everything? The site has been doggedly slow from day one and something needs to be done about it. Everytime I come to this site, it just frustrates the hell out of me. Furthermore, what's up with the stupid bug tracker. It looks like it's in read-only mode now and you have to request to be able to submit bugs. There are so many bugs that have been out there for years and have never been fixed. The new JSF looks a lot better than the old one, but, again HIRE SOME DOCUMENTATION WRITERS AND PUT UP SOME GOOD DOCUMENTATION. //