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Is it just me, or does this survey say basically nothing at all? Here's a summary if you don't want to bother reading the PDF (and you probably shouldn't bother
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Is it just me, or does this survey say basically nothing at all? Here's a summary if you don't want to bother reading the PDF (and you probably shouldn't bother):
- Most use Java7, a few still use Java6
- Mixed response on when exactly people will upgrade to j8
- Most exciting feature in j8 is lambdas
- 98% use Oracle JVM, 20% use dalvik (android)
- App servers popularity is Tomcat, Jetty, Jboss, others
- Mixed thoughts on Oracle getting security right
Seriously, what is the point of these questions...? You could get all these answers with a google search.
- craigching 13y agoThanks for that, was disappointed when I got to the link and wasn't going to see results directly.
- fecak 13y agoIt doesn't say much. This survey will likely be picked up by Java news sources and read by Java devs, since there don't seem to be many surveys geared towards Java devs these days. Maybe some of them will check out Scala. Why would the company most behind Scala post a very positive survey about Java? One would think that Scala's success probably relies on either replacing or supplementing Java. The only item that would be rather newsworthy would be the plans to adopt 8, but as you mentioned the survey doesn't provide a clear answer. My takeaway was that the most interesting new feature for people was lambdas, and Scala already offers lambdas. This could be interpreted as "Survey respondents are most excited about a Java feature that they could already have if they used Scala".