What it takes to become an Enterprise Java Developer?

An exhaustive and comprehensive list of items that a (true) enterprise Java developer should know. I would like to brief the items here with my own rating of importance, however, you can point to the title of this post for a detailed explanation.

- OOAD, UML (highly desirable)
- Java Core Libraries (must)
- Understand JVM, classloading etc. (desirable)
- AWT, Swing/JFC for desktop clients. (optional)
- JDBC API (MUST)
- Java security models and APIs. (desirable)
- Servlet, JSP, JSTL (MUST)
- Web/Application servers (MUST)
- Web frameworks (optional but desired)
- XML and Parsers (highly RECOMMENDED)
- Other J2EE APIs/Concepts (highly recommended)
- EJB (Highly Recommended)
- Aspect oriented programming/AOP (optional)
- JNI (optional)
- JCP/JSR/Data mining etc. (optional)
- JUnit (MUST)
- Ant, Maven etc. (MUST)
- Software Engineering processes (Highly Recommneded)

Do check out the full information at "Journey to Java" weblog at the title of this post.

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