…. I am now a Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD). The Oreilly Book Head First Servlet and JSP gives you a quick overview about what you should know. One advantages of the Book is it’s very “brain friendly”. But I got some tough  questions on the exam which were not covered in the Book.

When you want a Book which covers almost everything and when your are interested in a Book which you can keep after the exam as reference book the I recommend you the Book from David Bridgewater.

Also a good source to prepare yourself on a Sun certificate is the javaranch webiste.

I also got asked why should I take the exam. One statement I mostly heard was they only test you on “old technologies” like JSP and Servlets” and why should I take the exam when JSF is not part of the exam.

But most of the Java web frameworks use JSP and Servlets as the fundamentals. So with the SCWCD exam you will be forced to learn the fundamentals. You get a glue how JSF could be realized. Honestly there are a lot of things you will never use but I think when you prepare yourself seriously then it gives you a great benefit.

Steve which works in the same company as I took recently the Sun Certified Business Component Developer and he created some nice fact sheets which you can use to prepare yourself for the Sun Certified Business Component Developer exam.