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• Certification Guru Tutorial for Java Architect Part I Exam

Books :

These books cover a large percentage of the objectives :

1. Enterprise Javabeans
   by Richard Monson-Haefel
   (or)
2. Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans
   by Ed Roman
    
3. Design Patterns
   by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides
   (and)
4. Java Design Patterns
   by James Cooper
    
5. UML Distilled
   by Martin Fowler with Kendall Scott
   (and)
6. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide
   by Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, James Rumbaugh

   Some other books which are useful are :

7. Java Enterprise in a Nutshell
   by David Flanagan, Jim Farley, William Crawford & Kris Magnusson
   
    
8. Java 2 Network Security
   by Marco Pistoia, Duane F. Reller, Deepak Gupta, Milind Nagnur, Ashok Ramani
   
    
9. Design Patterns and Contracts
   by Jean-Marc Jezequel, Michel Train, Christine Mingins

   Books suggested by SUN are :

10. Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition: Platform and Component Specifications (The Java Series)
    by Bill Shannon, Mark Hapner, Vlada Matena, James Davidson, Pelegri-l, Larry Cable, Eduardo Pelegri-Llopart
    
     
11. Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (The Java Series)
    by Nicholas Kassem - Enterprise Team

Free Books on the net :

1. Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (The Java Series) by Nicholas Kassem - Enterprise Team
   
    
2. Mastering Enterprise JavaBeans by Ed Roman
   
    
3. Design Patterns by Mark Grand
   
    
4. The Design Patterns Java Companion by James W. Cooper
   
    
5. Thinking Patterns in Java by Bruce Eckel

White Papers :

1. Java White Papers

Mock Tests :

1. Prasks mock exam
   
    
2. Amit Jnagals mock exam
   
    
3. IBM Ice Test (Test 483)
   
    
4. Sun Practice Test (Missing)
   
    
5. Sun EJB Quiz
   
    
6. Jawroski Exam
   
    
7. Nilesh Shahs mock questions

Other Sites for Java Architect Exam :

1. Prasks Site
   
    
2. Amit Jnagal Site
   
    
3. Michael-Thomas Site

Discussion Forums :

1. eGroups : scea_j2ee
   
    
2. eGroups : scjea
   
    
3. Marcus Green Site
   
    
4. Sun Mailing List
   
    
5. JavaRanch

UML Tools : Free Downloads

1. Rational Rose
   
    
2. TogetherSoft
   
    
3. Object Domain
   
    
4. Magic Draw
   
    
5. Argo UML
   
    
6. Objecteering

EJB Servers : Free Downloads

1. WebGain
   
    
2. WebLogic
   
    
3. JBoss
   
    
4. enhydra
   
    
5. Orion

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