Passed SCJD 149/155

Thanks everyone at JavaRanch for all your help! This really is a great site. And the SCJD was a great learning experience.
Score: 149
General Considerations(maximum = 58): 57
Documentation(maximum = 20): 18
GUI(maximum = 24): 23
Server(maximum = 53): 51

Great score! Hope to see ya sticking around the forum to help others

Robin,
Congratulations on the excellent score!!
Mike

Great job Robin

Congratulations Robin
Amit

Congratulations, Robin!
Could you guess what made you lost 2 points in the dcoumentation?
[ July 29, 2002: Message edited by: Gosling Gong ]

Not sure why I lost points, but here's my best guesses:
Documentation (2 points): In-line code documentation was a little light. Javadoc sometimes only had one line comment for simple methods and didn't have @return, @param...etc.
GUI (1 point): Did not prevent multiple "search" button presses. No "Please Wait" type of message.
Server/General Considerations (2/1 points): Not sure, but maybe I wasn't concerned enough about performance.
I guess probably the biggest mistake I made was to set the essay test date to force myself to finish the project. I ending up having to rush and probably could have squeezed out a few more points if I put the assignment away for a couple weeks, and then reworked a few things. But then again, maybe I would never really feel like I was finished.
Let me know if you have more questions.

Maybe a bigger problem with the GUI was there was about two pages of code repeated for both the client and server that probably should have been factored out and shared.

Robin, did you use the default properties for each of your swing component?
Now I didn't set Look&Feel, and didn't set any font and color properties for swing components, I am not sure if it is OK?

I used the default Swing look and feel.

Congratulations!!!
on Your Sucess Robin...
I hope you stay back in this forum
to help all of us...

Congrats Robin. Well done. Please stick around and help us out in the SJCD forum. You answers have always been very helpful to all of us.
Mark