A Certification Creates Visibility of Your Eclipse Proficiency
Previously‚ monolithic IT spheres have broken up into countless special domains and each area comes along with a range of specific tools and methods. This evolution leads to an abundance of different technologies, pretty likely to complicate things instead of making our lives easier. Decision makers charged with staffing project teams find it difficult to assess the qualifications of software developers and start checking off highly specialized knowledge. At the same time, software companies and free lance developers are looking for ways to visibly demonstrate their skills in the required technologies.
So, how do we cater for these needs? Certified expertise is a convincing answer to this problem. Holding a certification, developers are able to prove their knowledge and meet the decision makers‘ demand for valid credentials whenever it comes to new kinds of tools and technologies.
With the incentive to improve the transparency of the skills of Eclipse developers, Eclipse Training Alliance therefore launched the 'Certified Eclipse RCP Developer', an internationally recognized proof of Eclipse RCP proficiency.
The Eclipse competence of a 'Certified Eclipse RCP Developer' covers the Eclipse Training Alliance knowledge pool: test takers capitalize on a relevant certification, designed by the training organization’s experts and always enhanced by current trends and developments. „The certification series makes skills visible“, says Dr. Jörn Weigle, managing partner of WeigleWilczek and co-founder of Eclipse Training Alliance, „it provides developers with a valid proof of competence that makes it easier for them to attract clients for application development with Eclipse RCP“.
The certification is carried out in two steps. A free admission test allows candidates to prepare for the subsequent programming assignment, which is then reviewed by two of the alliance’s experts. Eclipse developers interested in taking the test can review their RCP skills in a sample quiz on www.eclipse-training.net.
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Raffaele Gambelli replied on Tue, 2008/06/10 - 8:18am
Hi James,
www.eclipse-training.net is broken, can you confirm?
Anyway the direct link should be this one http://www.eclipse-training.net/certification/
sclarkson replied on Thu, 2008/06/19 - 11:48am
I think this is a scam. I took the test and it didn't seem like the test authors knew much about Eclipse. All it asked about was editors and views. When I interview people I really am not too interested in that sort of stuff. Anyone who has programmed RCP applications is going to know about editors and views anyway. Perhaps they might not know, for example, how to create multiple instances of a view, but anyone can look that up easily enough. There is a lot to Eclipse, numerous projects, deployment issues etc. etc. Experience in and deep understanding of these sort of issues is what I am interested in.
When you finish the test it then asks for money. I think that is what this is really about. The test itself is obviously not what this is about because you can re-take it until you pass! They obviously want to be sure that everyone is given an opportunity to pay them money.
If I saw someone with this 'certification' on their resume, it would certainly set off alarm bells. Why would someone claiming to have Eclipse RCP experience feel they had to waste time answering questions about editors and views and pay someone money? As usually seems to be the case, those with the certificates are those who have no experience.