Congrats!
I'm am still studying for it. when i'm done i would toy around with design
patterns and servlets/jsp. I would not immediatly start with Spring, Hibernate and other common framework. I believe that as a
Java starter you have not enought java core knowledge and if you do learn common frameworks you just are using the API as told in docs and tutorials without knowing what you really doing. I experienced this myself when learning frameworks before having a better understanding of java.
Just my 2 c. I'm also currious what experienced Java Programmers thought are about this.
Regards,
Ben