Important frameworks/tools to learn

Question

Heyja,

a frequently used answer to the question \"What is so special about Java?\" is \"The tools and frameworks\". I guess this is correct. I am stunned when i see

Answer 1

If we're talking marketability, then you ideally want to be the kind of developer who can be productive at any layer of a production app. So learn something about each layer.

• MVC: Struts, Spring MVC.
• Data Access: Hibernate, iBatis, JPA.
• IOC: Spring (huuuuge for integrating large systems. If you can, learn the AOP principles that Spring is based on)
• App Server: Tomcat, JBoss.
• Testing: JUnit
• Presentation: JSF, JSP.

Also, don't neglect the non-Java technologies you need to know:

• SQL - because you will need to talk directly to the database
• HTML
• JQuery - never underestimate the importance of neat UI features. For most users, that's the only part of what you do that they understand.

If I had to choose one thing out of this list, I'd go for Spring. If choosing two, I'd take Spring and JQuery.