Today I got word that I passed the SCEA/OCMJEA exam.  I passed part 1 in July and then took a break for the Core Spring certification.  Overall, the process is do part 2, take part 3 then e-mail part 2 and get grade in 4-6 weeks. (I got it in 18 days.) Week by week [...]

In part 1, I posed a question on decomposition strategies.   Before I present my answer to the example, I want to point out a few things: An experienced architect (or organizer) is going to be able to do this in one pass.  This is ok.  Even in the real world, once you’ve seen a problem [...]

Note: Oracle no longer uses Prometric so this procedure is no longer valid.   Registering for Oracle Java Enterprise Edition 5 Enterprise Architect Certified Master Downloadable Project was a nice little adventure.  I expected it to take 5-10 minutes.  Instead it took close to a half hour to figure out what to do.  I’m writing [...]