Books
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Web
- Wards Wiki - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WelcomeVisitors
- http://www.java.net/
- http://www.theserverside.com/
- http://www.kanneganti.com/technical/
- http://martinfowler.com/
Approaches
- Make a list of everything you don't understand
- Pattern-observance ability
- Be aware of all trends - database, java, web
- Keep searching for competing products
- Weekend ideas
- Make a roadmap and track your growth
Basics to cover
- UML
- Design patterns
- Interprocess communication
- JMS, JMX
- Annotations
- REST
- Tomcat working mechanism
- JVM spec
- Anonymous classes - various UCs
- Closure
- UNIX
- Load balancing
- performance testing
- profiling
- diagnostics
- stress/load testing
- junits / alternates
- how to write code with minimal memory footprint in java
- sharing code between JVMs
- Control class loading
- PMD/Checkstyle common terminology
- Logging
- Exception Handling
Frameworks to learn
- Caramel
- Mithra
- Mojo
- WireObjects
- SmartParams
- NoSQL
Principles to keep in mind
- Scalability
- Maintainability
- Extensibility
- Testability
- Efficiency
- Orthogonality
