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The article is quite wrong. Learning Java does make you a Java developer. You don't have to know any particular framework to be a Java developer, because ther
by dkarl 18y ago
The article is quite wrong. Learning Java does make you a Java developer. You don't have to know any particular framework to be a Java developer, because there are dozens of popular frameworks in use, and different projects use different frameworks.
There's no point in learning J2EE if you don't want to work on J2EE applications.
There's no point in learning Swing if you don't want to work on Swing applications.
I think what this he meant was, "Learning Java alone doesn't qualify you to apply for most Java jobs," or maybe, "You will not be immediately productive at your new job if all you know is Java."
- gaius 18y agoBack when I did Java professionally (1997) it was expected and considered normal for a Java programmer to know the entire thing and be able to do GUIs or network servers or whatever else needed doing. The hyper-specialization came later.