O'Reilly Now Competing With Sun Java Certificates

Joel Aufgang writes "O'Reilly Media's O'Reilly School of Technology in partnership with the University of Illinois has just launched a Java Programming Certificate Series, which looks like it's intended to compete with the Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) certification. According to O'Reilly's press release, this is not an exam-based certification but rather a series of project based instructor-led courses that, if you pass, earns certification backed by the University of Illinois. Also interesting is the use of Eclipse as the preferred learning platform as opposed to Netbeans."

I don't know...

[i kan reed]

"I took a class." can be even more easily abused than, "I passed a test." for posing false technical capability. Maybe not though. The market is definitely flooded with people using certifications to mean "ability." I hope this mitigates the problem rather than continuing it.

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Re:Good, the Java Certificate is useless

[sixtwentytwo94]

I work for O'Reilly and I can definitely say we didn't design this program to compete with some test. It's was designed to compete with Universities.

Re:Have you taken a SCJP exam?

[pinkstuff]

I believe that is the idea - SCJP is about memorising the facts, and the SCJD [sun.com] is about testing the application of that knowledge. I know that when I sat the SCJP I did pickup some things that I never new even with my industry experience, so IMHO it is worth while.