The stock market is down, and has been since the beginning of 2008, and corporate acquisitions are on the rise. Already this year Oracle has acquired BEA, Sun has acquired MySQL, and as of this writing, Microsoft is attempting to acquire Yahoo. While many people will survive these acquisitions, some certainly will not. Regardless of the industry that you're in and regardless of how secure your job is, it is in your best interest to be aware of the technologies that companies are looking for in the eventuality that you need to find a new job.

Java is alive and well in the job market. In this article I reviewed the results of my informal and unscientific research into the Java job market: I searched Dice with specific keywords and captured the number of search results they generated. As you want to increase your marketability in a turbulent market, the results are clear.

When you develop your enterprise applications, you should become familiar with how to deploy and manage them in WebSphere, WebLogic, JBoss, and Tomcat. You can download all of these application servers at no cost (the commercial products have development licenses so that you can use them for your learning.) Do not assume because you can write enterprise applications that all application servers are the same. You do not want to claim that you are familiar with an application server that you are not and then struggle through it on the job. Take the time to learn it now.

As far as technologies, your time is best spent learning Struts, Spring, Hibernate, an AJAX framework, and JavaServer Faces. It is not trivial to learn each of these technologies, but develop a schedule, pick out a few good books, and build a sample application in each. In short, if you can add each of these technologies to your resume, you should have no problem finding a job.

Paulo Silveira wrote:jsf, struts, jsp, etc... ainda reinam....

Luca wrote:Olá

Interessante o link.

Mas uma coisa eu não entendi na tabela 1: o que é J2EE sem servlets, JSP, EJB, JMS e até JDBC?

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Luca