What's next after servlets?

[Dieter Quickfend]

I personally disagree with Bear's views on JSF - it's used a great deal, standardized and has quite a few large companies backing it. It's also well-designed, and it's constantly improving and evolving into something better than it used to be. Especially with Seam's support for it, I like where it's going.

Still, one shouldn't discredit knowledge of Servlets - there are quite a few areas in which they overlap, you can't use JSF everywhere so you do need a back-up, and knowledge of servlets will definitely benefit your JSF development as well.

[Mark Greenberg]

Pat Farrell wrote:

leo donahue wrote:Blasphemy!

I did not say that no one uses them. I write a new one each week. But they are no longer new or sexy. They are more like the String class. Useful, and used all the time, but no one will get a job just because they put the magic keyword "servlets" on their resume.

There's probably about 9,999,999,999 lines of servlet code in production that someone has to maintain. I know maintaining OPC (other people's code) is not as cool as doing new design and development but if you really want a programming job, maintaing servlets just might get your foot in the door. After that, it's about learning the business and meeting the customer's needs.

[Mahesh Panchananam]

List of technologies you can try

DHTMLX - you need to add the javascripts (licenced) & use it to create interactive grids on the web pages.
JQUERY - can be used to handle many functionalities (sorting, validation.. etc)
JSF/RICHFACES - To create rich web application / UIs
Spring MVC - (part of spring framework) web layer functionalities
Struts MVC - web layer functionalities
Hibernate/iBatis - Object relational mapping S/Ws
JPA - Java persistence API (annotation based)
Spring - AOP : aspect oriented programming
Spring - Event Listeners: advanced
Spring Web services - Web service creation & consumption.

Rgds
Mahesh PS

[max dev]

Someone locked my original post and directed me here for answers.But none of the replies here clearly tells answers the question.Please,someone at least post all the available technologies under JEE/J2EE .Have to pick from them

[edited for language]

[max dev]

Mahesh Panchananam wrote: List of technologies you can try

DHTMLX - you need to add the javascripts (licenced) & use it to create interactive grids on the web pages.
JQUERY - can be used to handle many functionalities (sorting, validation.. etc)
JSF/RICHFACES - To create rich web application / UIs
Spring MVC - (part of spring framework) web layer functionalities
Struts MVC - web layer functionalities
Hibernate/iBatis - Object relational mapping S/Ws
JPA - Java persistence API (annotation based)
Spring - AOP : aspect oriented programming
Spring - Event Listeners: advanced
Spring Web services - Web service creation & consumption.

Rgds
Mahesh PS

good post!

[Madhan Sundararajan Devaki]

I believe, in addition to Servlets, there will be Asynchronous Servlets and its associated fascinating user-stories.

[Pat Farrell]

Madhan Sundararajan Devaki wrote: there will be Asynchronous Servlets and its associated fascinating user-stories.

You sir, are evil. Will your asynchronous servlets return the answer before getting the GET/POST?

Of course, they can't work over HTTP, so you will need a new protocol for the web :-)

[Vishal Hegde]

Abhay Agarwal wrote:i will say - learn Spring (Core + MVC) and Hibernate. these technology skills are required by many companies.

also you can pursue Oracle certification of Servlets and JSP

~ abhay

Core+MVC is different then JSP and Servlets???

I mean MVC is being reffered to Model View Controller , right??

[Bear Bibeault]

Spring Core is the component that provides bean management including dependency injection.

Spring MVC is the web framework.