Java career advice, now that I've been laid off

After nearly 13 years at the same company (my only job since finishing college), I was laid off. One would think that with such experience, a new job would be easy to find. The problem is that in those 12+ years I've focused on a rather narrow set of Java technologies, mostly core J2SE, with a little bit of EJB & JDBC. Nothing really web based at all. 99% of the job postings I see require experience with web development and/or experience with Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, JSP, Struts, etc... things that I have at best a passing familiarity with.
Does anyone have any advice about how to best overcome this? A crash course of teaching myself these new skills (which I've already begun, starting with Hibernate)? Enroll in a CS graduate school program (part time, so that I can continue in the evening when/if i find a job)? Find some other crash course sessions of these topics? Any advice at all? I'm in San Francisco, for what it's worth.
Thanks!

jjr001 wrote:
After nearly 13 years at the same company (my only job since finishing college), I was laid off. One would think that with such experience, a new job would be easy to find. The problem is that in those 12+ years I've focused on a rather narrow set of Java technologies, mostly core J2SE, with a little bit of EJB & JDBC. Nothing really web based at all. 99% of the job postings I see require experience with web development and/or experience with Spring, Hibernate, Servlets, JSP, Struts, etc... things that I have at best a passing familiarity with.
Does anyone have any advice about how to best overcome this? A crash course of teaching myself these new skills (which I've already begun, starting with Hibernate)? Enroll in a CS graduate school program (part time, so that I can continue in the evening when/if i find a job)? Find some other crash course sessions of these topics? Any advice at all? I'm in San Francisco, for what it's worth.You still have programming experience and problem solving skills. That's worth a lot especially if your college degree is related to computing.
Most companies are looking for competence. I wouldn't let buzzwords in the job postings put me off. Just apply for the jobs. And how hard are these technologies you mention. I promise to be an expert in any XXX in a week and in a month I'll outprogram people who have spent years toiling away with XXX and they come to me for advice. And if I can so can you. -:)
Another more important question is whether you really would want to spend the next decade with XXX? To me it would be hellishly boring. If I were you I would apply for jobs directly to the technical departments of companies I admire. Stick with core Java. This is where the challenges are and the fun takes place. Leave XXX to the monkeys.

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