The traditional JAVA course examination is just a list of questions from which we cannot know students' skills of programming. According to the eight abilities in curriculum objectives, we designed an assessment standard of JAVA programming course that is based on employment orientation and apply it to practical teaching to check the teaching efficiency of this assessment standard itself. Procedural assessment standard avoids disadvantages of traditional final examination. It puts emphasis on quality control of learning process. Through tracing and comparison of students during the last three years, procedural assessment has realized the unification of testing contents and curriculum objectives, improved students' abilities and laid the foundation of employment for the future.