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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2019

The 2019 Java Developer RoadMap

I have been sharing a lot of roadmaps to become
a Web developer, DevOps engineer, and
recently React.js developer. One of the requests
I received from many of my readers was for
creating a Java Developer Roadmap. Since
Java is my expertise, It wasn't a problem to
create a Java Developer Roadmap, but it took
slightly longer for me to create one because of
the limited time I get. Anyway, I am finally ready
to share my Java developer RoadMap with you.
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and the unobstructed path of how to become a
Java expert. It answers many burning questions like which technologies a Java developer
should learn? What tools make you a better Java developer? And, which framework a Java
developer must absolutely learn.

One of the things I tried with this roadmap is that to keep the exposure as short as possible, I
have avoided mentioning many alternatives, particularly when it comes to libraries and tools and
stick with industry-standard tools and libraries.
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but if there is enough desire, I am thinking to post The Java Developer RoadMap 2.0 to add
some advanced things like JVM internals, Profiling, Modules, Cloud Native Java, Containers
like Docker and Kubernetes, and much more.

If you are interested, you can find a more exhaustive list on separate blog pots, which I have
listed in the further learning section. Anyway, let's go through this Java Developer RoadMap to
understand how to become a Java developer in 2019.

Btw, you by no means need to understand everything on this roadmap to become a rockstar
developer. In fact, you don’t even need to take them that seriously if you don’t want to. Instead,
use these maps as a starting point to help guide your learning as you go.

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3. Frameworks
The best thing about Java is that it has a vibrant eco-system, which means there are a lot of
frameworks and libraries to almost anything. Usually, I don't suggest a Java developer learn a
framework until he needs to use it in his project, but there are some frameworks and libraries,
which I believe every Java developer should know like Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Log4j,
JUnit, etc.

3. 1 Spring Framework
If you want to become a Java developer in 2019 or maybe 2020, I strongly recommend you to
learn Spring Framework first. This is one of the most popular Java frameworks, and literally,
almost every single Java application I have worked in the last 5 years, uses this framework.

Spring Framework encourages writing clean code, which is easier to test and maintain by
providing you features like Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control. It also has a rich API
for most of the day-to-day tasks, and that's why every Java developer should learn Spring
framework.

And, if you want to learn Spring framework, there is no better course than Spring Framework
5: Beginner to Guru. It covers Spring 5, the latest version of spring 5, and teaches Spring in a
more hands-on way than any other course.

3.2 Hibernate
The second framework which I recommend every Java developer to learn is the Hibernate,
which is based upon JPA (Java Persistence API). To be accurate, Hibernate came before JPA,
but because JPA is standard API to implement the persistence layer in Java, Hibernate
implements it.

Now, why should you learn Hibernate? Well, because most of the Java applications you will
work with will interact with Database, and it's excruciating to deal with Database in Java using
JDBC and without a proper framework like Hibernate.

It provides some of the essential features like Caching and Transaction out-of-the-box, which
means you have more time to focus on your application logic, then implementing caching in
your application. This seriously improves the performance of Java application, and so far, my
most significant reason to use Hibernate.

Now, when it comes to learning Hibernate there are many great resources available in the
market, but the Spring & Hibernate for Beginners course is my preferred one because you
can kill two birds from one stone, you can learn both Spring and Hibernate in one course rather
than joining separate courses for them.

3.3 Spring Boot

This is another framework I recommend every Java developer to learn in 2019 and going
forward. Spring Boot took Spring's philosophy of simplification and made it easy to work with
Spring itself. Just like Spring makes it easier to create a Java application, Spring Boot makes it
easier to create a spring-based Java application.

Features like auto-configuration take away most of the pain associated with configuring Spring
application. Similarly, starter POM features grouped commonly used dependency into simple
reusable POMs.

Now, if you want to learn Spring Boot, I strongly suggest you go through Learn Spring Boot in
100 Steps course; it's one of the best and most up-to-date and also provide step-by-step guides
for common things a Spring Boot developer needs to know.
4. Testing
Testing is an essential skill for any Java developer, particularly unit testing, integration testing,
and automation testing. At the bare minimum, every Java developer should be familiar with
JUnit and Mockito, two of the most popular Unit testing and Mock library.

If you know these two and know how to use them to effectively create a unit test, you will be a
much better Java developer than without them.

There are more advanced libraries also exists like Cucumber for Business-driven testing, Robot
Framework for integration testing, but there is no substitute for JUnit, you will always need that.

When it comes to a mocking library, you have a couple of choices like PowerMock, Mockito, and
EasyMock, but I strongly suggest you learn Mockito because it's a great library and also many
Java developers and companies are doing that. It is slowly becoming the standard library for
creating mock objects in Java.

If you want to learn JUnit and Mockito, I have already shared a lot of resources like books and
courses, you can check those to learn more.

5. Utility Libraries
The real power of Java lies in its rich ecosystem of open source libraries. You will find libraries
to do almost anything in Java from logging to machine learning, from sending an HTTP request
to parsing JSON and much more.

Apart from that, Java is also lucky to have utility libraries like Apache Commons and Google
Guava, these two libraries effectively complement JDK libraries. I have also shared a list of 20
Java APIs and libraries for Java developers.

I suggest you go through that list, chances are that you already half of them but if you don't
learn them they are very, very useful and help you to write better Java programs and deliver
faster.

That's all about the 2019 Java Developer Roadmap. This is an excellent resource to learn
Java in 2019 and become a better Java developer. I have kept it simple so that most of the
people can follow it and only included the vital stuff, but if there is enough desire, I am thinking
to post The Java Developer RoadMap 2.0 to include some advanced stuff like JVM internals,
Profiling, Modules, Cloud Native Java, Containers and much more.

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5 comments :
zemiak said...
what means different (yellow) color of Maven and (orange) NIO ?

October 10, 2019 at 6:38 PM

Marees Seenivasan said...

Good article...

October 10, 2019 at 8:20 PM

javin paul said...

Highlighted in different color to mark their importance :-)

October 11, 2019 at 5:09 AM

Mridul said...
It will be very helpful if you can share some links for resources to learn the sections mentioned above for beginners.
Thank You.

October 12, 2019 at 7:51 PM

javin paul said...

Hello Mridul, I have shared a lot of resources like books and courses, even in this article. Anything in particular you
would like to know? May be I can point to the right article.

October 14, 2019 at 5:11 AM

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