How to start a career in J2EE and be SUN certified?

I am Web Application Developer using C#.NET. I really want to start a new career using Sun's J2EE. What is do i need to be a Web Application Developer using J2EE?. Being a good Web Developer using .NET requires ASP.NET, SQL Server 2000, IIS .. etc. Those are all Microsoft package and what the market is expecting from a .NET developer. Now, What does the market expect from me as J2EE ? Can anyone help? I am lost and I don't know the exact steps to get started.





Thank you all

How to start a career in J2EE and be SUN certified?
You need to master:





- Java language


- the Java classes from J2SE (Standard Edition). You don't need to study all the classes. You can concentrate on some ones, like java.sql.*, java.io.*, for example. Skip java.awt, javax.swing, they are needed for form applications, not web apps.


- Java Server Pages: it is out of J2SE, and is part of J2EE. You need to use a web container, like tomcat, see http://jakarta.apache.org


- Servlets: only to complete you knowledge


- And then, you can study some framework, like Struts (see the jakarta site), and Spring:


http://www.springframework.org


- For persistence, you can study some ORM, like


http://www.hibernate.org


- Please, skip Enterprise Java Beans, is a dead end, in my opinion. You can check


http://www.theserverside.com


http://www.jboss.org





Angel "Java" Lopez


http://www.ajlopez.com/