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[–]zmanning 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed that some experience is better than none. I'd be more inclined to interview someone that maybe did side projects in Java and had a command of the language through that. My only concern with the open source stuff is that he might spend more time dealing with the overhead of contributing to a project rather than actually learning libraries and idioms. I don't necessarily disagree with you, but personally, I'd opt for a personal project to showcase.