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Useful Links for Sun Certified Enterprise Architect (SCEA) Exam

SunTone Architecture Methodology
The Java EE 5 Tutorial
Gang of Four Design Patterns
Core J2EE Design Patterns

Note: Design Patterns are workarounds for limitations of the languages and platform. As the platform evolved, some design patterns have become obsolete. e.g. Service Locator is no longer needed with Dependency Injection
It is important to determine which design pattern is replaced by [...]

Smart = Agile++ by Ivar Jacobson

One of the most entertaining talks I went to was the Be smart! by Ivar Jacobson. Although the concepts that he presented were definitely not new, he found a very clear and entertaining way to present them. A RUP guy, he told it how it is – about what I consider to be agile – [...]