What are the essential skills for Java developer with 2 to 3 years of experience?

If you are having Java Developer experience of around 2–3 years then you must have good exposure of these skill set :

1. Core Java
2. Advance Java (Servlet, JSP)
3. Spring
4. Hibernate
5. MySQL/Oracle/PostgreSQL database
6. JUnit
7. Apache Tomcat or some other Server
8. SVN
9. Basics of HTML, CSS, JavaScript (If you are going to work on web development)
10. Restful and SOAP web services
11. Java AWT /SWT (Rarely used by companies )

Apart from these skill set, following skill set will add more into your resume :

1. Working on Google APIs
2. Amazon Web Services (AWS)
3. Working with Gradle/Ant
4. Deployment and release of Java based application