TESC BBA CIS or Computer Science? Which is better for employers

[ryoder]

I have definitely used url parameters for prepared statement values but of course the security person in me cautions against doing so directly. I always use a front end framework with conversion and validation such as JSF to validate untrusted user input and prepare a bean for processing by our service and business logic layers. These layers are then injected with a DAO layer which handles the DB access. Our DAO layer of choice is iBatis SQL mapper which allows us to maintain our queries and ORM mappings in a nice clean XML file. We also use spring to wire everything up and spring annotations for transaction management.

JSF XHTML Page->Conversion/Validation->Backing Bean->Service Layer->DAO->iBatis->JDBC->Oracle

I have a lot of respect for someone with a CS degree but we look at the degree last and sometimes not at all when we select a candidate.
I can tell by talking to a developer and asking specific questions based on what they have on their resume if they can walk the walk.