TheServerSide.com Java Technology Trends Survey 2010

1. Which best describes your employer? [Select one] Required Question

	A software company
	A non-software company
	An IT services company that provides outsourced application development to clients
	A consulting firm
	A government or nonprofit organization
	I am a self-employed consultant
	Other

2. What percentage of your time roughly do you address to these types of software development-related tasks? [Total should equal 100%] Required Question

	Design/Architecture
	Requirements gathering
	Coding – By customizing solutions by building entirely new applications
	Coding – Creating custom apps by integrating multiple in-house apps
	Coding – Customization of commercial packaged applications
	Testing and QA
	Deployment
	Maintenance
	Managing other members of the development team

0/100

3. Rate your level of expertise in Java technologies on a scale of 1 to 5, where 5 indicates "Advanced/Expert" and 1 indicates "Beginner/Novice." Required Question

4. What do you expect to be doing more of over the next 12-18 months that will require new skills, training, or professional reading on your part? [Select all that apply]

	Managing/technical lead on complex development projects
	Web services or service-oriented architecture
	Using JSON, REST, or other new application architecture
	More application integration, less new application development
	Employing grids or cloud architectures in development or deployment
	Creating new software development tools
	Employing more lightweight architectures and frameworks
	BPM-centric (business process management-centric) applications
	Other

5. What type of applications are you currently developing? [Select all that apply]

6. Which of the following technologies are you currently working with? [Select all that apply]

7. Do you customize any of the following packaged applications as part of your responsibility? [Select all that apply]

8. Has the completed acquisition of Sun by Oracle, along with the departure of highly respected Sun talent such as James Gosling, had any influence on your development strategies and efforts? [Select one] Required Question

	Makes me excited about the future of Java development
	Makes me very nervous about the future of Java
	Makes me a little nervous about the future of Java
	Has caused me to shy away from Java to another language and platform
	No influence at all
	Other

	BI/Reporting
	Business process metrics or business process management
	Embedded
	ERP
	Financial/Human Resources
	Mobile
	Supply chain management
	Web applications [Not including e-commerce websites]
	e-commerce websites
	Transactional applications
	None
	Other

	Distributed applications
	Application client components
	Data services
	Integration
	Grid/cloud
	On-demand, Software-as-a-Service
	Portal-based applications
	Web services
	None
	Other

	SAP
	Oracle E-Business Suite
	J.D. Edwards
	PeopleSoft
	Siebel
	SalesForce.com
	Microsoft Dynamics
	No
	Other

Beginner/Novice				Advanced/Expert