Java, CI and WS Technology

App Server: JBoss, Glassfish, Geronimo, Tomcat (no EJB), WebLogic (OAS), WebSphere
• SOAP Stack: Axis2, CXF, Metro, JBoss WS, Websphere JAX-WS, WebLogic (OAS) JAX-WS, Spring Web Services
• Specs: JAX-WS (JSR 224), JAX-RS (JSR 311), JAX-RPC, SAAJ (JSR 67), JSR 181 (standardize deploy), JSR 109 (WS inside JEE)
• General Features: Spring Support, Eclipse Plugins, Streaming XML (STaX), Client-side Asynchrony, Server-side Asynchrony, Policy-driven code generation)
• Marshalling: JIXB , JAXB, XMLBean
• Attachments: SAAJ (SOAP w/ attach), MTOM (Msg Transmission Optimization Mech), DIME (binary)
• Encoding: XML, FastInfoSet, JSON
• Transports: HTTP, JMS, XMPP

CI: Jenkins, Hudson, Bamboo, TeamCity, Cruise Control

Build and dependency management: Ant, Ant/Ivy, Maven

Static Analysis: Checkstyle, FindBugs, PMD, PathFinder, JDepend, Coverlipse, Cobertura, Clover, Coverity, Structure 101

Test: JUnit, TestNG, EasyMock, SOAPUI, firebug, surefire (maven), STAF(S/W Tasting Automation Framework), Load test (SLAMD distributed load generation , JMeter)

Documentation: Javadoc, SchemaSpy, UMLGraph

XML/XSD create/edit/XSLT transform: XmlSpy, Liquid

Network Tools: wireshark, winscp, putty, tightVNC, nirsoft network tools, pathsync, synergy, filezilla, VMPlayer

Patterns: Observer, Template, Adapter, Proxy

JMS/EAI/SOA/ESB platforms: WebSphere MQ, Tibco, Vitria, WebMethods, BizTalk, Sonic, Fiorano, Mule ESB, Apache ActiveMQ, Fuse, MSMQ, GlassfishMQ, Camel, RabbitMQ

ORM: Hibernate, iBatis

JSSE Provider: BouncyCastle, AlternativeJSSE, Certicom, IBMJSSEFIPS, SunJSSE

Issue Tracking: ClearQuest, XPlanner, Trac, Bugzilla, Jira, Mylin

IDE: Eclipse, SpringSource ToolSuite, plugins: WTP (Web Tools Platform), DTP (Data Tools Platform), ClearCase, Subclipse, m2eclipse, UML2 Tools SDK

Profiling: JProfiler, JVisualVM, JHat, JConsole, SMAPS

Modeling: UML, OO round trip – Java, DB schema modeling, DDL generation, reverse engineering, eclipse integration, measure architecture violations, complexity debt

Enterprise Patterns: WS-Orchestration, BPEL, WS-Choreography/WSDL 2.0 message Exchange Patterns (see Enterprise Integration Patterns), JAX-WS asynchronicity (polling, callbacks, rendezvous with Future, Continuation Passing Pattern), XMPP, MOM (message oriented middleware), JMS (pub-sub), SOAP over JMS, WS (standard request-response), VMWare messaging via GN3/IOS, Contract First WSDL (e.g. Spring WS)

Websites: stackoverflow, infoq.com/java, the serverside, refcardz, informit, developerworks (esp. automation for the people), martin fowler, sdtimes, http://java.sys-con.com/, http://java.dzone.com/, Java Reference Guide (http://www.informit.com/guides/guide.aspx?g=java), java almanac, http://www.theregister.co.uk/software/

Books: J Dev Almanac, Effective Java, Java PowerTools, Pragmatic (Ship it, Manage it, Pragmatic Program Automation), Clean Code (smells), Refactoring Large S/W Projects, Agile s/w with Spring, Hibernate & Eclipse, Java Enterprise Design Patterns, Pattern Oriented S/W Architecture, Antipatterns, pragmatic programmer, beautiful architecture