Tag Archives: java

Java programmer certification and interview questions

August 19, 2008 – 4:44 pm

Earlier: Java programmer certification CX-310-065 preparation | James … I posted about preparation, I passed but didn’t get a great mark. The Sun exam objectives and overviews provide a lot of good information about what will be in the exam and I should have spent more time revising that material - especially since many of […]

By James Little | Posted in development | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Ruby on Rails vs Java?

August 1, 2008 – 12:11 pm

I’m amused, in our project we use .NET for a public website and we use Java for the Client UI and web services. So we have this conversation a lot…
Us Java guys don’t seem phased by having to source open source frameworks to enable logging, unit testing, building, web services, server pages, XML parsing…. 100’s […]

By James Little | Posted in development | Also tagged | Comments (3)

Tomcat JRE_HOME setting

July 16, 2008 – 11:00 am

If you are running Tomcat from the command line using catalina.bat (or catalina.sh) then you can set the start up settings in your shell.
set JRE_HOME=C:\Progra~1\Java\jdk1.5.0_14
This works on Windows, it seems that JAVA_HOME is the only system variable tomcat 5.5 is using. The rest come from the start directory?
Using CATALINA_BASE:   E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26
Using CATALINA_HOME:   E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: E:\bin\apache-tomcat-5.5.26\temp
Using JRE_HOME:        […]

By James Little | Posted in development | Also tagged , , | Comments (2)

James project space

July 14, 2008 – 8:23 pm

I’ve got a few projects that I need to get some traction on… and I thought several of them are worth sharing, remembering.
In the Java space:

Swing web UI with localisation
Swing web services with ageci security and hibernate
Java/JNI debugging

In the PHP space:

Articles template/formatting component for Joomla (and Grad Jobs website)
PHP C extensions
CakePHP 1.2 RC2 example application

And […]

By James Little | Posted in development | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

The next step: Java developer certification

July 4, 2008 – 1:45 pm

It looks a little more interesting that the programmer certification… The Java developer certification includes an assignment that recommends doing a Java UML course. And an essay.
I would have been tempted to do the WS certification in the EE path, but its only a multi-choice… Perhaps I’ll do that as well anyway?

By James Little | Posted in development | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)