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🔽 Learn Java
📌 Foundation of everything. Master Java first!
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🟢 Basics | Classes Variables Loops OOPs Collections Generics Exception Handling (Checked vs Unchecked) |
| 2 | 🔴 Advanced | Design Patterns JVM Threads Servlets & JSP Concurrency Garbage Collection Streams & Lambda Functional Interfaces Java Memory Model Reflection API Custom Annotations Java Modules (JPMS) JDBC Java 17+ Features (Records, Sealed Classes, Pattern Matching, Text Blocks) |
| 3 | 🔧 Build Tools | Maven Gradle Ant |
| 4 | 🖥️ Servers | Tomcat Weblogic JBoss WebSphere Jetty |
| 5 | 🧪 Testing | Unit Testing Integration Testing JUnit Mockito TestContainers Selenium |
| 6 | 📝 Logging | Log4j Log4j2 Logback SLF4J |
🔽 Learn Spring Framework
📌 The backbone of Java enterprise development
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🏗️ Core | Bean Life Cycle Dependency Injection Inversion of Control Bean Factory & Application Context Bean Scopes (Singleton, Prototype, Request, Session) Spring Expression Language (SpEL) Event Handling |
| 2 | 🌐 Web | Annotations MVC Structure Configurations Integrating Libraries/Frameworks Profiles Exception Handling (@ControllerAdvice, @ExceptionHandler) Validation (@Valid, @Validated) Content Negotiation CORS Configuration |
| 3 | 🎯 AOP | How AOP Works Creating PointCut, Join Point, Aspect |
🔽 Learn Spring Boot
📌 Convention over Configuration - Build production apps fast!
| # | Topic |
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| 1 | Importance of Spring Boot |
| 2 | Auto Configuration |
| 3 | Adding Configuration |
| 4 | Properties / YAML |
| 5 | Integrations with Libraries/Frameworks |
| 6 | Spring Boot Starters |
| 7 | Actuator (Health Checks, Metrics) |
| 8 | DevTools |
| 9 | Embedded Server Configuration |
| 10 | Spring Boot CLI |
| 11 | Profiles (dev, test, prod) |
🔽 Learn REST API
📌 Build and consume APIs like a pro
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 📡 HTTP Methods | GET POST PUT PATCH DELETE HEAD OPTIONS TRACE |
| 2 | 📊 Status Codes | 1XX (Informational) 2XX (Success) 3XX (Redirection) 4XX (Client Error) 5XX (Server Error) |
| 3 | ✨ Best Practices | API Versioning HATEOAS Swagger / OpenAPI Rate Limiting Pagination & Sorting Content Negotiation (JSON, XML) |
🔽 Learn Database
📌 Data is king - know where and how to store it
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🐬 SQL | MySQL PostgreSQL Oracle SQL Server |
| 2 | 🍃 NoSQL | MongoDB Cassandra Redis DynamoDB |
| 3 | 🔗 Spring Data | Spring Data JPA Spring Data MongoDB Spring Data JDBC Spring Data Redis |
| 4 | ⚡ ORM & Tools | Hibernate JPA Flyway (Migrations) Liquibase Connection Pooling (HikariCP) |
| 5 | 📐 Database Design | Normalization Indexing Transactions & ACID CAP Theorem Sharding & Replication |
🔽 Learn Spring Security
📌 Secure your applications from day one
| # | Topic |
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| 1 | Authentication |
| 2 | Authorization |
| 3 | OAuth2 |
| 4 | Form Authentication |
| 5 | JWT (JSON Web Tokens) |
| 6 | CSRF Protection |
| 7 | CORS |
| 8 | Method Level Security (@PreAuthorize, @Secured) |
| 9 | Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) |
| 10 | Session Management |
| 11 | SSO (Single Sign-On) |
| 12 | Spring Security Filters Chain |
🔽 Learn Microservices
📌 Build scalable, distributed systems
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | ☁️ Spring Cloud | Spring Cloud Gateway Spring Cloud Config Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker Spring Cloud OpenFeign Spring Cloud Sleuth Eureka (Service Discovery) Resilience4j |
| 2 | 🐳 DevOps | Docker Kubernetes AWS / GCP / Azure CI/CD (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) Terraform Helm Charts |
| 3 | 🔄 Patterns | Aggregator CQRS SAGA Event Sourcing API Gateway Service Mesh Circuit Breaker Strangler Fig |
| 4 | 📨 Message Queues | Apache Kafka RabbitMQ AWS SQS ActiveMQ |
| 5 | 📊 Observability | ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) Prometheus + Grafana Zipkin / Jaeger (Distributed Tracing) Micrometer |
🔽 Learn Web Fundamentals
📌 Before any Java frontend framework, master the web basics!
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 📝 HTML5 | Semantic Elements Forms & Validation Accessibility (a11y) SEO Basics |
| 2 | 🎨 CSS3 | Flexbox Grid Responsive Design Media Queries CSS Variables Animations & Transitions |
| 3 | ⚡ JavaScript | ES6+ Features DOM Manipulation Fetch API / AJAX Event Handling Promises & Async/Await |
| 4 | 🎨 CSS Frameworks | Bootstrap Tailwind CSS Bulma |
| 5 | 🛠️ Tools | npm / yarn Webpack / Vite Browser DevTools |
🔽 Learn JSP
📌 Classic Java web technology - great for understanding foundations
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🟢 Basics | JSP Lifecycle Scriptlets, Expressions, Declarations Implicit Objects (request, response, session, application) |
| 2 | 🏷️ Tag Libraries | JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library) Custom Tag Libraries Expression Language (EL) |
| 3 | 🏗️ Architecture | MVC with JSP + Servlets Request Dispatching (forward, include) Filters & Listeners |
| 4 | 📦 Integration | JDBC with JSP Session Management Error Handling Pages |
⚠️ 2026 Status: Legacy - mainly for maintaining existing projects. Prefer Thymeleaf for new projects.
🔽 Learn Thymeleaf
📌 Modern server-side template engine - Spring Boot's best friend!
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🟢 Basics | Natural Templates (HTML5-friendly) Standard Expressions (${...}, *{...}, #{...}, @{...}) Text, Iteration, Conditionals |
| 2 | 📐 Layout | Template Fragments Fragment Expressions Layout Dialect Decorate Pattern |
| 3 | 🔗 Spring Integration | Spring MVC + Thymeleaf Form Binding & Validation Spring Security Dialect Message Externalization (i18n) |
| 4 | 🔴 Advanced | Custom Dialects Inline JavaScript (th:inline) Template Caching Preprocessing |
✅ 2026 Status: Actively maintained & widely used. Recommended for server-rendered Java web apps.
🔽 Learn Vaadin
📌 Build rich web UIs using only Java - no JS required!
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🟢 Basics | Vaadin Flow Component API Layouts (VerticalLayout, HorizontalLayout, FormLayout) Navigation & Routing |
| 2 | 📝 Forms & Data | Data Binding (Binder) Validation Grid Component CRUD Operations |
| 3 | 🎨 Theming | Lumo Theme Custom CSS Dark/Light Mode Responsive Design |
| 4 | 🔴 Advanced | Web Components Integration PWA (Progressive Web App) Push Notifications (Server Push) Lazy Loading REST API Integration |
| 5 | 🔗 Spring Integration | Vaadin + Spring Boot Spring Security with Vaadin Spring Data with Vaadin |
✅ 2026 Status: Growing in popularity for enterprise dashboards & internal tools.
🔽 Learn JSF
📌 Component-based web framework standardized in Jakarta EE
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🟢 Basics | JSF Lifecycle Managed Beans / CDI Beans Facelets Templating Navigation Rules |
| 2 | 🧩 Components | Standard Components (h:inputText, h:dataTable, etc.) Converters & Validators Composite Components |
| 3 | 🔗 Integration | CDI (Contexts and Dependency Injection) EJB Integration JPA Integration PrimeFaces (Component Library) |
| 4 | 🔴 Advanced | Custom Components Ajax with JSF (f:ajax) Exception Handling View Scope & Conversation Scope |
⚠️ 2026 Status: Declining - mainly for Jakarta EE legacy maintenance (government, finance).
🔽 Learn JavaFX
📌 Modern UI platform for desktop, embedded & mobile apps
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🟢 Basics | Stage, Scene, Nodes FXML (XML-based UI Layout) Scene Builder (Visual Designer) Event Handling |
| 2 | 🎨 Styling | CSS Styling in JavaFX Themes & Skins Custom Controls |
| 3 | 📊 Rich Features | Charts & Graphs Animations & Transitions Media Playback (Audio, Video) WebView (Embedded Browser) |
| 4 | 🔴 Advanced | Properties & Bindings Concurrency (Task, Service) Canvas & 2D/3D Graphics Drag and Drop Printing API |
| 5 | 📦 Packaging | jpackage (Native Installers) GraalVM Native Image Cross-Platform Distribution |
✅ 2026 Status: Well-established for desktop apps. Not for web.
🔽 Modern Integration Patterns
📌 Connect Java backends with modern frontend frameworks
| # | Category | Topics |
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| 1 | 🔗 REST + SPA | Spring Boot REST API + React Spring Boot REST API + Angular Spring Boot REST API + Vue.js |
| 2 | 📡 Real-Time | WebSocket with Spring Server-Sent Events (SSE) STOMP Protocol |
| 3 | 🔒 Auth Integration | JWT with SPA Frontends OAuth2 Login Flows CORS Configuration for SPAs |
| 4 | 📦 Deployment | Serving SPA from Spring Boot Separate Frontend/Backend Deployment Docker Multi-Stage Builds Nginx Reverse Proxy |
| 5 | 🌐 HTMX + Java | HTMX with Spring Boot + Thymeleaf Hypermedia-Driven Approach Minimal JS with Server-Side Rendering |
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