I am thinking of trying JBoss to keep my J2EE skills up., I am currently working on a Java project that is neither web related nor J2EE., , From looking at the website, http://www.jboss.org/, it looks as though JBoss is Free for both development and production., I guess they make their living from support and selling detailed documentation., , Anyway, I was wondering if anyone out there had used it.

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I just recently passed the Sun Certified Java Programmer exam and I found this book usefull:, , http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/158880139X/qid=1036089019/sr=1-13/ref=sr_1_13/002-7190039-9256003?v=glance , , Java 2 Exam Cram, Second Edition , Bill Brogden., , I first took a sample exam from the web (sorry I don't remember where it was) and failed., After studying with the book, I passed., I found the fact that there were about 10 sample questions at the end of each chapter very helpfull., That way you can test what you have learned right away., The book also had a full sample exam in the back., My actual test results came within a few percent of my score on the book's practice exam.

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Hi all,, , I am planning to take up Sun Certified Web Component Developer certification. Can you suggest me some sites where I can find sample papers and materials to learn. Please give me sites other than Sun's Education portal., , Thanks.

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Sorry I have not replied to this sooner, I don't get on this board that often., , When you are installing a Linux package in a binary format (e.g. RedHat RPM or similar),, you don't have a choice on where it is going., , If you have downloaded the source, usually, you can specify where the package will be installed before compiling., For example, if you wanted the package to go to /opt/mypackage instead of /usr, you would do , something like this:, , cd mypackage-1.2.3 (or what ever source directory you have), ./configure --prefix=/opt/mypackage, make, make install, , In Linux, as in Unix, you do not specify drives directly., What hard drive partition something resides on depends on where you have your partitions mounted., In Linux/Unix, you can mount a hard drive partition anywhere in the directory hierarchy., For example, you could have /dev/hda1 mounted on the root directory "/"., Then you can have a partition from another drive, say /dev/hdb3, mounted on /usr (which is under /)., T...

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I used the MSXML parser a lot at my last job., It is a COM component and as such may be used by any language that supports COM (e.g. C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, Perl, Python, etc.)., It is also faster than most of the other XML parsers I have used., , There are a lot of versions of it and Internet Explorer comes bundled with some version., Perhaps the problem you are having has to do with whether or not IE is installed on the system and what version of IE/MSXML is already there., , In general, it should be OK to install a newer version of MSXML on top of the older one.

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There is a .NET effort for Linux. It has the unfortunate name of Mono., , Here is a link: http://www.go-mono.com/

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