General Readings

Java ™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition 1.4 - Details
Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java ™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition - Details
Extension Mechanism Architecture - Details

Required J2EE 1.4 Specifications for Certification

The following items are organized by the topics they belong to in J2EE Specification 1.4 Public Draft 3 and the Final Release - [JSRLink(151)]. In case an item appears in more than one section, it is placed under the first occurrence to avoid duplication of entries.

Section 3 - Security

Java ™ Authorization Service Provider Contract for Containers 1.0 (JACC) - [JSRLink(115)]
Java ™ Authentication and Authorization Service 1.0 (JAAS) - Details

Section 4 - Transaction Management

JDBC ™ 3.0 - Details
JTA 1.0.1B - Details
JTS 1.0 - Details
JMS 1.1 - Details
EJB 2.1 - Details

Section 5 - Naming

JNDI 1.2 - Details

Section 6 - Application Programming

Servlet 2.4 - Details [JSRLink(154)]
JSP 2.0 - Details [JSRLink(152)]
JAXP 1.2 - Details
JMX 1.2 - Details
Connector 1.5 - Details [JSRLink(112)]
!JavaMail 1.3 - Details
!JavaBean Activation Framework (JAF) 1.0 - Details

Section 7 - Web Services

Web Services 1.1 - [JSRLink(109)] and [JSRLink(921)]
JAX-RPC 1.1 - Details
SAAJ 1.2 - Details
XML Registries (JAXR) 1.0 - Details

Section 8 - Interoperability

The SSL (Secure Socket Layer) Protocol, Version 3.0 - Details
IDL To Java ™ Language Mapping Specification - Details
Java ™ Language To IDL Mapping Specification - Details
CORBA 2.6 - Chapter 26 - Secure Interoperability - Details
Interoperable Naming Service - Details
The Common Object Request Broker: Architecture and Specification (CORBA 2.3.1 specification) - Details
Transaction Service Specification (OTS specification) - Details

Section 9 - Application Assembly and Deployment

Java ™ 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition Deployment Specification 1.1 (J2EE Deployment specification) - Details[JSRLink(88)]
Optional Package Versioning - Details
JAR File Specification - Details
J2EE Management 1.0 - Details [JSRLink(77)]