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What happens when overenvironment?

Last year, ZeroTurnaround Oapplication containers in the Jsharing info about their develoresults helpful.

This year we expanded on that, aaccurate information. The survey

and those responses were analy

What is more popular, Ant

Which Java IDE is the mo

What Java EE standards

Which Java Framework is

What Java Container / Ap

How much development ti

We asked the people we met at

promoted the survey in the medi

they would be notified again onc

chance to win free JRebel licensare published.

A total of 1027 responses were a- they were requested to provide

including all calculations is availa

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Productivity Report 2011

000 Java developers compare the

published a reporti on turnaround time,va ecosystem. Over 1300 Java develop

pment environment, and over 40,000 pe

sking more and better questions to give yoitselfiiprovided data from over 1000+ Java

ed to create this report. We set out to disc

or Maven?t popular?

re used the most?

most prevalent?

Server is used the most?

e is spent redeploying Java containers?

avaOne 2010, emailed previous survey res

. They were sent an email with the link to t

the results were made available. Participa

s and one recipient will receive an iPad on

nalyzed to create this report. Of these, 28%data from before they were purchasers. Th

ble for downloadiii.

2010. All rights reserved.

ir development

ools andrs ended upple found these

better and moreEE developers

ver:

pondents and

e survey and told

ts were offered a

e the final results

are JRebel usersraw data
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Build Tools and IDEs Se

What is more popular, Ant or

We asked everyone to mark the t

As you can, see Maven and Ant

both. Clearly both of them are usmentioned, but none of them gat

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ting the scene

aven?

ools they use for building their application:

re used almost equally and some of the re

ful in some way. Tools like Gradle, Ivy andered even 5 votes.


pondents use

SBT were


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Which Java IDE is the most po

The IDE results show a much wi

In terms of user base, Eclipse ha

respondents using IntelliJ IDEA (

separately and not doing the sam

idea, that's something we'll do be

chart Oracle's [ex]-flagship IDE,

independent player MyEclipse.

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ular?

er distribution of preferences:

s emerged here as the clear leader, with on

2) and Netbeans (#3). Perhaps including

e for other Eclipse distributions like RAD w

tter next year. It is interesting that accordin

Developer, is even more marginal than the


ly one-third of

yEclipse

s not the best

to this

small


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Servers & Frameworks

Which Java Containers / App S

Compared to the last years chart

also see that Jetty and Tomcat h

bit. The results from these 1000+

WebSphere have lost a total of 8last year.

We asked people to choose onlycompanies several containers arcontainer do people spend most

phrase it like that. So don't make

deployment, but it's a good estim

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ho are the popular kids at school

ervers are used the most?

ivwe see % gains for the open source cont

ve a bigger share than last year, while Gla

developers shows that Oracle WebLogic a

of the market to the open source contain

one primary container in this question, evein use. Since we were interested first of allf their time in development it just made mo

any assumptions as to how this applies to t

ate for the situation in development.


iners. We can

ssfish is sliding a

nd IBM

rs compared to

though in manyl, in whatre sense to

he production
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What Java EE standards are u

As far as Java EE standards are

Here the market penetration is malmost as much as the venerable

altogether have 39%, which woul

some overlap between EJB2 and

coming CDI standard has gainedchange next year. We'll cover JS

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ed the most?

concerned we have the following picture:

ore important than the comparison aspect.JSP, with 37% of market penetration. EJB

d make them the most popular standard, b

EJB3 users, so the actual total is likely a bi

6% so far, will be very interesting to see hoin the next section.


PA is usedversions

t there's likely

t smaller. Up-and-

w much this will


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Which Java Framework is mos

Let's take a look at the framewor

Spring and Hibernate are by far tstandards. However, as far as w

of answers.

Unfortunately, we havent separayou must) that it is at least as po

or less (GWT is barely over that

The third most popular frameworasked Matt Raiblev if these result

presentation Comparing JVM We

what he had to say:

"It's surprising to see that

Framework Matrix results

the top JVM Frameworks,

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t prevalent?

chart:

e most popular and in fact are still used mb frameworks go, JSF looks like a popular

ted Spring MVC from Spring, but we assumular as JSF. The rest of the frameworks ho

nd is the third most popular).

in our survey was GWT, followed closelys aligned with his recent controversial

b Frameworks presentation from Devoxx 2

ramework popularity closely aligns with the

calculated at Devoxx. I had Spring MVC a

along with Ruby on Rails (running on JRub


re thanchoice with 24%

e (interpret this asld a share of 10%

y Struts 1. We

10vi and here's

JVM Web

d GWT listed as

of course).
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"While this matrix was the

decent technique for choo

web framework is to picksatisfies your needs to be

"More than anything, makthat's likely to be key in th

"I'm surprised to see so m

companies choose it beca

say that Struts 1 and Spri

However, just because fra

use them. There's other gTapestry come to mind) th

"I think the biggest thing thREST support. I think mor

(with frameworks like jQue

embrace that. I especially

same classes. This allows

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result ofmuch controversyvii

, I think it gives

ing a web framework to use. Of course, th

few you like, prototype with them and seet.

sure the developers on your team like devir productivity using it.

ny folks using JSF, but I do understand w

use it's such a "safe" choice as a standard.

g are pseudo-standards based on their po

meworks are popular doesn't mean you sh

eat component-based frameworks in Javaat are easier to use than JSF."

at component-based frameworks need toand more components are being develop

ry, ExtJS and SproutCore) and web frame

like frameworks that allow emitting JSON a

for easy web page and API development a


developers a

way to choose a

which one

eloping with it, as

y many

In fact, you could

ularity.

uld automatically

GWT, Wicket and

ork on is theird on the client

orks should try to

d HTML from the

t the same time."
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Turnaround Time - How di

This year we asked questions ab

redeploys per hour. We also askhappens. We specifically asked e

were glad to see the developmen

"I wait till I have enough c

like this, it's definitely one

artificial way of coding with

"We use tests (unit tests, iespecially if you are not d

that the delivered system i

"We use Eclipse/Sysdeo/I

quickly this is a great wayevery time they occur. Unf

minutes. "We use HotSwap/Eclipse

mechanism is a great wayAlso, if you can't use explo

JSP/HTML/etc.

"We use OSGi" -- only a c

application redeploy can breinitialized.

"We use Grails, Play! or T

that these extremely prod

"We use JRebel" -- the morespondents were JRebel

We originally did not include a 3

your application? However, we hhalfway through the responses. T

for the 1 minute answer.

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ferent J2EE environments compar

out the time it takes to redeploy the applicat

d those who don't have to redeploy to comveryone to provide the answers without u

t in this area since last year:

anges to warrant a redeploy" -- we've got a

f the ways around the problem, but it can l

little incremental feedback.

tegration tests, etc)" -- if you have enoughing UI), it's a great way to both avoid redep

s stable and correct. Kudos to those who d

tellij IDEA/etc HotDeploy" -- for application

to improve turnaround, by making the IDE rortunately for bigger applications it saves cl

Debugger Session/etc" -- The built-in class

to make small changes, but limited only toded deployment, you still have to redeploy

uple of answers like that, but in a well desi

e very quick, as only the changed bundle n

pestry 5" -- a few answers for each of thos

ctive frameworks are being used.

st popular answer, but not surprising consiusers :)

sec answer to the question How long do

ave since received a few comments abouto compensate for that, we will use a 48se


e

ion and number of

ment on why thising JRebel. We

few comments

ad to a very

tests (andloys and ensure

this!

s that deploy

epublish changesicks, but not

replace

method bodies.for any change in

gned OSGi

eds to be

e, great to see

ering that 28% of

s take to redeploy

hat, and fixed it (0.8 min) value


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How long does it take to restar

This was the first question we as

We didn't ask with such accuracytrends have stayed the same. Th

deviation is 2.8, which means tha

It can be noted that a statisticallydevelopers) responded that it tak

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t your container and redeploy your app?

ed. The answers are distributed below:

last year, which makes it harder to compare average redeploy time is 3.1 minutes, but the redeploy time varies greatly.

significant segment of respondents (just oves over 10 minutes to fully redeploy.


e, but it seems thet the standard

er 1 in every 10


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In an hour of coding, how man

The average frequency is 4 time

With these two questions answerredeploying in an hour. We bega

reported redeploying more than 6

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times do you redeploy?

an hourwith the standard deviation of3.2

ed, we can make a reliable estimate for theby removing those who don't redeploy at

0 minutes an hour (ummm.what?)


.

total time spentll and those that


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How much time per hour do yo

The average respondent spends

deviation of9.8. This is about 17.day as "coding time", and assum

average 5.3 full, 40-hour workwe

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u spend redeploying?

about 10.5 minutes an hourredeploying w

5% of total coding time. If you consider 5 h4 weeks out of each year are vacation tim

eks per year are spent exclusively redeplo


ith a standard

urs out of eache, then on

ing and restarting.


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Redeploy time per Java EE Co

Finally, we can also see how the

Note: This doesn't mean that big

influence the choice of container:

Not many changes from last year

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tainer (as a % of overall coding time)

choice of container correlates to the time s

er containers are that much slower, rather

here, although it's nice to see the improve


ent redeploying.

bigger apps

ents in Glassfish


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Conclusions?

Interpreting data is always a hard

reasonably large. But some bias i

to answer.

The data gives a fair overview of

the most interesting thing is that,

commercial software manage to

Of course with companies like JB

distinguish the two, but commerci

Sonatype backing Maven). It will

upcoming years:

Whether it will be the vend

will find the most use. How much the Open Core

and their commercial back

Will the closed-source con

diminish or increase?

Come back next year, let's see w

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and dangerous task. A sample of 1027 de

is possible, as it's likely the more active dev

what the Java development ecosystem loo

despite what some say, the world of open s

oexist quite well.

oss and SpringSource it's becoming increa

ial interests are present on every single gra

be interesting to see how this balance deve

or-backed standards or community-backed

will be adopted by projects like Jetty, Tomc

ers.

tainers and tools survive in the ecosystem?

hat happens!


elopers is

elopers bothered

s like. Probably

ource and

singly difficult to

ph (if you include

lops in the

frameworks that

at and GlassFish

Will their role


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Footnotes and URLs

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http://www.zeroturnaround.com/surve

iiihttp://www.zeroturnaround.com/docs/ivhttp://www.zeroturnaround.com/blog/jvhttp://raibledesigns.com/vihttp://raibledesigns.com/rd/entry/my_vii

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