Following are the points that are highlighted in Kathi Sierra and Bert Bates book on SCJP6.

1-    Console class.
2-    NavigableSet and NavigableMap.
3-    Lower(int) and higher(int) function are added in Treeset collection.
4-    Polling method in TreeSet and TreeMap.
5-    TreeSet.descendingSet() and TreeMap.descendingMap().

Thanks to Bilal for discussing these points with me.

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From a recent announcement from Oracle under Sun Academic Initiative program (SAI). Now students can get Java certification voucher in $40 till 31st March 2010. This is an excellent opportunity for students. After this date they will give 40% discount on the actual price of the exam fee.

Read more on SAI home page:

All SAI members may purchase the $40 discount vouchers until March 31, 2010 at saic.educationservicesgroup.com/ and redeem the vouchers at Prometric testing centers through the expiration dates. The voucher instructions and expiration dates are sent via email when members purchase the vouchers.

After March 31, 2010, all SAI members may obtain 40% off discount vouchers by emailing: contact_sai@sun.com

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Its been a year since I purchased the voucher for SCJP 5.0. But I cant concentrate to have time to prepare it. From last night I have taken the oath to finally make it done. I have started with the book SCJP Sun Certified Programmer for Java 5 Study Guide (Exam 310-055) by Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates.

A remarkable thing is I purchased the free retake voucher which is going to expire on June 2010. But I still didnt make even a single attempt. Ok thats all right. I am going to do it. I hope to appear for the successful first attempt in good marks.

I am not using any IDE for coding practice. I am using Notepad++ editor and command line Javac compilation. I want to get maximum of language fundamentals and want to think out of code completion feature.

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When I came to know that Sun is giving away the opportunity to sign up for newly launched SCJP i.e. Sun Java Programmer Plus certification. I registered for it. According to them Selected candidates will be given the opportunity to appear in beta test for free. But still they have this announcement on their website.

And just recently I got an email from Sun that hey have delayed this certification.

Dear Tahir,

Thank you for your interest in the Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification – Sun’s first performance based Java Certification exam.

We wanted to inform you that the full beta for the new Sun Java Programmer Plus Certification has been delayed to later in this year based on the results from initial beta testing and to align more closely with the upcoming release of JDK 7. We will get back in touch with you as soon as we have revised dates for the full beta test.

If you have any questions or feedback, please send a message to sunlearninglink@sun.com

Thank you,

Sun Microsystems

I don’t know why they suppress SCJP6 and 5 exam. I think many people (me too) have purchased SCJP 5 voucher and preparing for it. When I hear this news I was getting afraid that might be SCJP 5 got expired. Thank God its not. I found similar discussion on  I found on CodeRanch forum when I was searching this announcement on Internet.

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