TDP Exam Review

The following items would be good to know for the TDP exam:

• The basics of the MVC architecture and the roles that the Model, View and Controller play.
• How a Web component (servlet or JSP) can transfer control to another Web component.
• The basics of programming servlets and writing JSPs and why you might use each of those kinds of Web components.
• What an HTTP session is and how JEE application servers manage them.
• The fundamentals of Spring containers and how they manage instances of beans.
• How Spring implements dependency injection and the various options programmers have when using DI.
• How Spring supports transactions and how to configure them.
• The fundamentals of the JSP expression language and how to use tags from the JSTL core tag library, especially in the context of MVC Web applications.
• How to write Java classes that use JAX-RS annotations to implement RESTful applications that use the four "CRUD" methods.