A professional is a person who has a long period of commitment to a single field with skill, knowledge and experience. The skill, knowledge and experience are evaluated by the relevant market segment and he/she has financially gained above the average level of the non professionals involved in the same field. Their professional skill, knowledge and experience should be evaluated and justified by the professional body or organization. True professionals are expected to abide by the code of conduct and code of ethics formulated by the professional body or organization for him/her to guarantee a quality service to his/her customers. In a professional context, concern for genuineness, trustworthiness, reliability is considered at a high level and hence they develop the social respect, honor and reputation.
", "Professional Body or Organization is to be formulated by a set of experienced experts in a single field to grant professional titles, conduct examinations, and formulate qualifications and implement code of conduct, code of ethics in the field. The main duty of the professional organization is to protect and enhance the professionalism among its professionals. The professional organization abides by the constitution to get corrective actions for misconduct of its members based on the code of conduct.
", "The Java Professional is a generic identification for a Java developer involved in the Java software development environment for a period of more than two years. He is not recognized by the general public as a true professional until he is awarded one of the Chartered Java statuses by the Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals International. In general, Java developers are called Java professionals when they gain few years of industry experience in the field of Java technology. Another form of Java professional can be seen in the development environment who bears trade certifications in Java Programming. The true meaning of a professional is far more complex and beyond a few years of experience and theoretical trade certifications, and would involve a personal body of knowledge, competence, reputation & trustworthiness recognized and valued by society.
", "The Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals International was awarded the Charter in 2008 at its incorporation as a legally authorized International professional body to recognize competent, educated and experienced individuals involved in the field of Java Technology with Chartered Java Status.
The Charter status awarding authority is a special privilege to an incorporated body, and Charter is derived from the Royal Charter which is granted by the Sovereign on the advice of the Privy Council of United Kingdom for UK Charters. It is an exercise of the Royal Prerogative. The Charter empowers the Chamber to manage professional activities worldwide.
Chamber is the only legally authorized international body to award chartered status to qualified Java professionals worldwide. The authority and the power wested to the Chamber expressed by the mandate agreed upon and the incorporation and the mandate covers all requirements for Chartered Java professionals to adhere to the code of conduct and code of ethics to provide better service to the society.
References to Royal Charter", "The Chartered Java status is the highest recognition a Java developer can acquire in the field of Java Technology followed by many levels of Chartered Java statuses in the Chartered Java hierarchy. Chartered Java status is not to be considered for developers who are only familiar with just Java programming language. They should be able to develop a complete software solution fulfilling the industry or a research requirement by integrating all other related technologies. The complete business solution is an integration of many relevant technologies. Ability and skill to calculate load and concurrency for the purpose of selection of the most suitable technologies to develop a complete business solution are strongly considered while awarding the Chartered status for a developer in any Chartered category.
", "Chartered Java statuses are hierarchically arranged. Someone may obtain the highest status of the Charter (Certified Chartered Java Professional - CCh.JP) in eight years of their involvement in the industry. That may reduce maximum up to 5 years according to the achievement during the practice.
A prospect who is interested in Java technology can earn Chartered Status completing following three major components.
Professional skills are in two categories:
Formally Developed Skill can be gained by a carefully structured professional skill development training program. The training program should be recognized by the professional organization or professional body relevant to the field. The skill and knowhow of the field is to be acquired at the end of the training program and that should be evaluated according to the guidelines provided by the professional body.
Informally Gained Skills are gained by the involvement in the relevant field for long time supporting to a qualified professional, working under him or working in a related organization as a general employee. The skill is transferred to him in an ad hoc manner without a formal and sequential learning process. But the long time involvement in the same field may lead him to succeed with the skill evaluation process of the governing authority, due to his experience.
", "Theoretical knowledge can be academic or professional. The academic theoretical knowledge can be gained from a traditional college, high school or from a university. The disadvantage in acquiring the knowledge requirement for a particular profession from an academic institute or organization is that they have to learn all other subjects as well, irrelevant to what the subject is, which may take a longer period to study. Today in the modern world, professional academic knowledge development courses are formulated by even traditional universities focusing only a single subject.
Today in the field of information technology the professional theoretical knowledge acquiring component is very precise because that is based on trade certifications and clearly relevant with professional theoretical certifications offered by professional organizations. Content of the trade certifications cover and are completely limited only to the subject area required for theoretical knowledge development of the professional field. In the field of information technology, candidates who expect to acquire theoretical knowledge need not waste their time learning irrelevant subjects matter.
", "Professional experience is mainly of two types,
The Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals offer membership opportunities to a few carefully selected qualified professionals after a recommendation by a present active Fellow Chartered Member. Memberships are offered only for professionals who are willing to work towards the development of Java professionalism globally. With the seniority, they become the top layer of the Chamber to work with international community to build up relationships for the betterment of the organization and Java professionals worldwide.
Memberships are of four major categories:
Complete Core theories of Java programming language to accomplish the development tasks in JavaEE and JavaME are completely dependent on complete knowledge in Java SE platform. The CCJP examination is formulated to cover 100% core concepts and core theories of Java SE platfom. Chamber recommends all prospective Java professionals to certify with CCJP examination for them to become true professionals in the field of Java Technology.
CCJP examination is completely a theoretical examination which checks the complete core conceptual knowledge in Java Programming Language. The scope of this examination does not cover related technologies to be known by the candidate to develop a software solution.
The Charter defines that any candidate who expects to become a Chartered Java Professional should certify his/her knowledge with this theoretical examination hence it covers the complete core theories of Java programming language and their applicability to develop a fast and efficient Java application.
The course content of the examination is developed by the team of professionally qualified industry experts and fully qualified team of academics of the board of the curriculum development of the Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals. The Course content of the examination is being subjected to be reviewed timely and hence added new contents relevant to the theoretical and core conceptual advancements by the open source community.
Exemptions are considered for candidates who expect to get the Charter status if they are qualified with trade certifications or vendor certifications which are approved by the Council of the Chamber of Chartered Java professionals.
Vendor or Trade Certifications Exempted by the Council of the Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals Council of the chamber of Chartered Java Professionals exempted only one certification up to date considering all pects of the examination as a theoretical examination for a candidate to qualify as a Chartered Java Professional. Hence a candidate needs not repeat CCJP examination if he/she possesses certificate of the exempted examination. Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) Examination conducted by Sun Micro systems USA is the only exempted trade certification by the Chamber up to now
", "All Theoretical examinations are formulated to confirm the knowledge components of the developer to confer the professional status and developer titles. Theoretical examinations are formulated in two different paths.
Theoretical Examinations Focused on Developer Titles (TEFDT)
Following examinations are known as Java Theory Master Exams (JTME). Course contents under the TEFDT cover only the concepts of the Java programming language. These examinations are almost similar to the trade certifications provided by the vendor of the Java programming language. Candidates gain the additional advantage of taking up these examinations hence certifications are provided by the professional organization rather than private sector vendors.
Theoretical Examinations Focus on Professional Status (TEFPS)
Following examinations are known as Professional Theory Master Exams (PTME). Course contents under TEFPS cover all concepts required to become a Java professional in the relevant level of the professional hierarchy. Hence these examinations are evaluated the knowledge of the other related technologies which are required to develop a fast and efficient Java software solution. Candidates who expect to become professionals are compulsory to follow these examinations.
Skill Development Training Programs Leading to Professional Status
Software Development skill of the candidate can be developed under the properly designed skill development training programs. Training institutes affiliated to the Chamber of Chartered Java Professionals provide skill development programs relevant to the level of the professional hierarchy. Carefully improved and well structured skill of the candidate through a skill development training program is compulsory to obtain a professional status in the relevant field.
Eight titles are offered by the Chamber to qualified developers in following fields evaluating their qualification, skill and experience. A qualified developer can receive one or many titles and those titles can be used after their name.
PCJT-BSD is the first ever title any candidate is being honored by the Chamber. This title is offered to a fully qualified candidate after the evaluation of knowledge skill and experience as mentioned bellow.