Such certification profits are hard to measure. I mean – all your salary negotiations are secret, so it’s not able to compare with someone else with the same job but without a certificate. Moreover, even if you’ll find someone who is willing to break the rule and share his salary with you – this differences might not even come from the certificate itself – it might be just a matter of the negotiations itself.

Therefore, I’ve never measured it like that and I’m not able to answer your question. One thing is sure – besides the great motivation to gain new knowledge, it does have a positive impact on your interview; perhaps that’s why you’ll be invited for the next interview?

Right now you need to take the training, as it’s the only way of getting the voucher (valid 1 year.)

I agree, the prices are extremely high. The Cracow one was the cheapest one – ca. 1200 EUR. In the matter of fact, it was cheap enough to encourage Tom (the Englishmen I’ve mentioned in the text) to go to the Cracow, pay for tickets, hotel and the whole one-week trip instead of taking the training in England.
Even the on-line courses were more expensive (this is totally abstract!)

If I remember correctly, this was the only training in Poland organised by the SpringSource in 2012.

I believe reading JSP, EL specs is not that much important from exam point of view.

I would thoroughly study Servlet specs though and would definitely try your mock exam.

Cheers,
SWapnil

Well, there is no real trick in learning the specs – I just found it interesting to read it and test some of the discussed features. I do believe that there are few websites talking what changes were made between 2.4, 2.5 and 3.0 like here: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-01-2006/jw-0102-servlet.html and here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1638865/what-are-the-differences-between-servlet-2-5-and-3

After reading HFSJ, I think you can just skim the specs and you’ll fast see what are the differences. I’ve skimmed the JSTL and JSP specifications but didn’t really use it for the exam. The EL is more important so I took some time with it (although e.g. deferred expressions weren’t at the exam…)

If you have more time, I’d just advise to read the Servlets 3.0 specs after the HFSJ (it’ll give you the big picture) and then go with the Enthuware’s mock exam. If don’t have much time, I’d just take the Enthuware’s mock exam after the HFSJ.

Good luck mate!

I am starting preparations for this exam. Currently I have started with HFSJ. Could you please let me know how to learn the specs? I there any simple way / trick to learn it? I mean if I read HFSJ then it covers Servlet 2.4. How can I find exact differences between Servlet 2.4 and 3.0 from learning perspective? One more question: There are three more specs other than that of Servlet 3.0 namely: EL, JSTL and JSP. I think those are also in the syllabus but never seen anyone mentioning those who have passed this exam.

Could you please guide me?

Cheers,
Swapnil

I’ve removed the “g” answer from the question, as I decided that this was not the real purpose it was asked and you can still gain some knowledge from it. I’ve added additional explanation in the answers section.

Once again – thanks for your awareness!

I think g is the correct answer, since rolesAllowed = “*” will returns a non-emtpty array, hence the emptyRolesSemantic should not be specified, this will cause an invalid usage of @ServeltSecurity.