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Google App Engine gives you the possibility to write Web applications and to deploy them on Google servers, so that those applications are very secure, fast, and especially very scalable. Currently it is still in the test phase, but as soon as that application platform will be released, it will probably perform very well.

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1. Learn english. Your english has not to be perfect, yet you should be able to read english Java literature and to write a little english documentation (aka javadoc) for the software you are developing.
2. Learn the basics. You should know what Java interfaces are, how generics work, and so on. That means, beside your programming skills you should know some theoratical aspects about Java.
3. Take one of the frameworks, tools, libraries, or whatever, and learn as much as possible about it. Then move to the next framework, tool, or whatever… In that way you will gather a lot of knowledge over time.

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