I would like to group skill items from typical Java developer resumes – aka CVs – in a somewhat standardized way. See this jsfiddle for some work-in-progress.

I came up with the primary and secondary categories listed below, each with some sample items.

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• Java features and APIs:
  • Configurable JVM feature (Garbage collection, Remote debugging, JMX, etc)
  • Java language feature (Generics, Threads, Annotations, Enums, Lambdas, …)
  • Java SE API (Collections, Date/Time, NIO, java.util.concurrent, …)
  • Java EE API (EJB, JMS, JPA, JSF, JSP, …)
  • Java SE UI (Swing, JavaFX, WebStart, Applets, …)
  • 3^rd party Open Source web frameworks (Struts, Wicket, Spring MVC, …)
  • Other 3^rd party Open Source framework (Spring, Hibernate, …)
  • Closed-source vendor technology (Java based but no JSR)
• Java Tools/Servers:
  • Application Servers (Websphere, Weblogic, JBoss, Glassfish, Tomcat, Jetty, …),
  • Developer Tools (IntelliJ, Eclipse, Netbeans, …)
  • Build automation tools (Maven, Ant, Jenkins, Teamcity, Bamboo, …)
  • Profiling and test tools (JVisualVM, SoapUI, JMeter, …)
• Methodologies (software engineering approaches and practices):
  • Project level: Agile, Waterfall, RUP, …
  • Engineering level: Dependency Injection (DI), Object-Oriented Development (OOP), Continuous Integration (CI), …
• Relevant non-Java technologies:
  • Web technologies (HTML, CSS, JQuery, JavaScript, SVG, …)
  • Scripting languages (bash, Perl, ksh, Groovy, ruby, etc)
  • Operating systems (Linux, MacOS, Solaris, …)
  • Database servers (Oracle, MS SQL server, Sybase, …)
  • Team tools (Confluence, JIRA, Crucible, …)
  • Other programming languages (C, C++, Cobol, Fortran, Scala, …)