Below you may find a plan for programmer who wants to take Java programmer position. For example, if you are C++ developer and see your future in Java world, then following plan can assist you in this.

Note: This is not about getting ready for certification,
      but learning to be familiar with Java technologies.

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Java Roadmap Plan

Books

• Recommended reading: Java Books and Articles

• More Recommended reading: Java Textbooks

JDK/JRE

• Installing JDK and/or JRE

IDE

• Integrated Development Environment

Licenses

• Open source and licenses

Databases

• Databases in Java
• MySQL
• HSQL

Logging

• log4j

ORM

• Hibernate

Web Servers and services

• Tomcat
• Jetty
• AXIS 2

Extra

• Installers (InnoSetup, NSIS)
• Java Native Interface

Development process

• SCRUM
• XP

Continuous Integration

• Ant
• CruiseControl (Java)
• Maven

Version Control Systems

• Mercurial - http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/Mercurial
• SVN
• Comparison of VCS systems - http://subversion.tigris.org/

Quality

• Code Coverage
• Unit Testing
  • JUnit
  • UI testing
    • JFCUnit
    • uispec4j
• Acceptance testing
  • Selenium

Advanced

• ANTLR (and Domain Specific Languages)
• Scala
• C# for Java developers
•  Core Java Codings