Things That Developer Must Know

In order to have a good practice as a developer, one should have to sum up with the following points mention below. One should have to sharp himself on every stage, as knowledge gaining is a never ending process.

1. One should have a sound knowledge of the design patterns and aware of its usage that where to use them in java.

2. Continous improvement in the languages that are adding up of new features in new version of languages, every developer must aware about it. for example like adding of generics, Enum, annotations etc.

3. One should have known about the basics of the building tool or project management tool on which, the work is going on.

4. A developer must know about the version control system that named as GIT/SVN/Perforce/Clearcase.

5. Having a knowledge about the common open source java libraries that must be used regularly and some Apache libraries.

6. As a developer one should know how to use integration tools like  Jenkins and Hudson etc.

7. One should know about the unit testing for that you can use JUnit and TestNG.

8. Having a basic knowledge of XML is plus point over here.

9. The developer must have command over business frameworks like spring.

10. The main point that must a developer have is that he has a knowledge about the dependency injection if he is using spring it's a major thing.

11. The knowledge of MVC frameworks like - Struts, Webwork, Spring MVC, Tapestry.

12. At least a developer has a basic knowledge about the Web services and REST  based web services.

13. Including of all, he must aware of the web server like Tomcat, Glassfish etc.

14. As most of the IT companies work on UNIX so one should have a knowledge of Unix is adding as a plus point.

15. One should have a knowledge of Data types and some  java.lang.classes.

16. He should have known about the collection framework.

17. A developer must have a knowledge about the multithreading environment and knows how to deal with it.

18. A technical guy must ready to accept and upgrade his knowledge as per the new releases.