SCEA Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for Java EE Study Guide (Exam 310-051) [With CDROM]

This book is amazing, and cover not only everything necessary for the SCEA, but more. Most of this "more" stuff, will not be usefull directly in your test but will help you very much understanding the necessary concepts. Again, the book is very good, but since it has so much information, it's easy to loose yourself among this sea of words and stories. I recommend go for other SCEA recommended books like the GoF Design Patterns, Sun Press By Mark Cade, Core J2EE patterns second edition before this one. Once you have a good knowledge to make the test, wrap it all up with this book. It will give you a perfect review of everything and call your attention about small things that no other literature will give to you.

i am just in the middle way of reading this book, but what i have got till now is great. I have 8 years career with software development specially in java, i reached to a point am doing system architecture most of the time, but i can say i was doing it from the point of view of "House Architect", now i can see things from Tower Building Architect, or City Architect in the extreme. I did not pass the certificate yet so i dont know how much it is useful on this matter.

This one brings you up to speed w the SCEA 310-051 exam. It has practice exams (3) which are fairly comprehensive. The CD-ROM is valuable for someone on the go; it has pdf's of the chapter content. The J2EE stuff is good for introduction and background. Other books may be needed to fill the gaps. Good ROI on this book.

I have actually taken the exam before buying this book. But I had a chance to take a look in the book stores. I know how it was terrible in collecting the resources. This book saves a lot of time.Most of the topics are well covered from ground up to detail so that even the beginners can learn the basic concepts if they are not so strong. There are also examples codes everywhere in the book. This would be really help if you have not been extensively in the J2ee development.I would say that this book covers 90% of the topic asked in the exam. But for topics like DNS round robin you have to get materials from the forum.Definitely we can't expect everything from the author as certain topics are really in general(common architectures), so that SUN can ask anything. So I would appreciate the author for taking so much effort.

Finally a book that fits its title. This one covers the SCEA 310-051 exam well. It has lots of useful practice exercises; usuable even for the oh so critical technical interview. The chapters concentrate on the exam objectives as published by SUN. It complements the the "J2EE Unleashed" book (by the same authors) which is focused on the J2EE development life cycle and has some great real life examples. The CD-ROM is valuable in and of itself as it has two practice exams and pdf's of the chapter content. The J2EE case study is a real-life J2EE architecture is a good example of a service style SOA application involving connectivity on Mainframe.This is a worthwhile purchase.