OCA Java 7 prep - Day 1

This is Day 1 of my prep for OCA. Today, I will be studying Chapter 1 of the book

OCA/OCP Java SE 7 Programmer I & II Study Guide (Exams 1Z0-803 & 1Z0-804) 

Here are the notes from the chapter:

Reading list for the week of 2/23 - 3/1

http://www.jsclasses.org/blog/post/73-Do-You-Still-Need-jQuery-Maybe-Not--Lately-in-JavaScript-podcast-episode-51.html
http://www.baeldung.com/spring-jdbc-jdbctemplate
http://blog.backand.com/overview-data-binding/

Gradle

gradlew eclipse updates Gradle dependencies in Eclipse classpath

Access your locked files to delete them

Unlocker

Wizard Framework in Flex

Details:

• It is responsible for navigation within it.
• It knows when the user has reached the end of the wizard

Log Java SOAP request/response

I was wondering the other day how could we log our requests/responses in a log file while calling web services. I did some research and this is what I found.

VPN Connection

I found a strange thing happen to my VPN connection yesterday. I suddenly lost all my connection entries in my VPN connection. I could see all of them but the settings for each of them were lost. STRANGE. So, on clicking on any one of them, I would get this error: "Error 5: No host name exists for this connection entry."
Seems like something corrupted the VPN profile settings. I have not got to the root cause of this yet but I could figure out the way out of this issue. If you go to \Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\Profiles\Backup, you'll see a file RestoreVPNprofiles.bat. Just run that; if you have an instance of VPN open, close it and open again and it restores all the entry settings.