🧭 Full Stack Java Developer Roadmap (Mentor Edition)
Curated by a Senior Developer for Junior Developers
Target: Entry-Level to Mid-Level Job (5–8 LPA Range)
JDBC (CRITICAL)
- JDBC Drivers and Architecture
- Connection, Statement, PreparedStatement, ResultSet
- CRUD Operations
- Transaction Management
- Exception Handling
Servlets (CRITICAL)
- Servlet Lifecycle (init, service, destroy)
- doGet vs doPost
- HttpServletRequest & HttpServletResponse
- Session Management: Cookies, URL Rewriting, HttpSession
- Forward vs Redirect
JSP (NICE TO KNOW)
- JSP Lifecycle
- Scriptlets, EL, JSTL
- JSP with Servlets Integration
MVC Architecture (CRITICAL)
- Model-View-Controller Basics
- Servlet + JSP + JDBC MVC Flow
- How MVC is used in Spring
Maven (CRITICAL)
- Understanding POM.xml
- Adding dependencies and plugins
- Maven Build Lifecycle
Postman (CRITICAL)
- Sending REST API Requests (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE)
- Headers, Params, and JSON Body
- Auth: Token, Basic
Hibernate (CRITICAL)
- ORM Basics, Entity & Table Mapping
- CRUD with Hibernate
- Session, Transaction, HQL
- Mappings (One-to-One, One-to-Many)
- Lazy vs Eager Loading
Spring Boot (CRITICAL)
- Annotations: @RestController, @Autowired, @Entity, etc.
- Creating REST APIs
- Spring Data JPA
- Connecting to MySQL
- Validations and Exception Handling
- application.properties Configuration
🧠 Technologies You Should Add
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript (Must for Frontend)
- React.js (Modern UI development)
- Git & GitHub (Version control and collaboration)
- JSON and REST API concepts
- Data Structures and Algorithms (Array, Strings, HashMap basics)
📅 Recommended Learning Order
1. - Core Java
2. - JDBC
3. - Servlets + JSP
4. - MVC Architecture
5. - Maven
6. - Hibernate
7. - Spring Boot
8. - Postman
9. - Git & GitHub
10. - Frontend (HTML → CSS → JS → React)