From the end of the article... The TL;DR version for efficient readers Java versions – Adoption since 2012 of the newest Java versions has been strong, namely

From the end of the article... The TL;DR version for efficient readers Java versions – Adoption since 2012 of the newest Java versions has been strong, namely growth in Java SE 7 and Java EE 6…the fact that certain older version of Java SE and EE still command decent minorities is a bit odd, but nothing to fear. IDEs – Eclipse is a very stable market leader, but increasing favor and interest in IntelliJ IDEA may eventually equalize things. Alternative JVM languages – Scala is the most interesting, enterprise-ready language on the JVM, and Groovy & Clojure play a great counterpart to the non-Java coding movement. Build tools – Maven’s dominance is now unquestioned with Ant’s decline from previous years, although fast-growing Gradle is extremely interesting to respondents. Application servers – Open-source players like Tomcat, JBoss, Jetty and GlassFish dominate both production and development environments, which use the same technology for 81% of respondents, although it’s clear that development-only app servers in the highest favor are Jetty, Tomcat & TomEE. Web frameworks – A mature and fragmented market, over 1/3 of developers use more than 1 web framework, and here Spring MVC is still king in this area, with stable JSF and growing Vaadin following Object-relational mapping frameworks – When it comes to ORM, Hibernate takes the cake, although other technologies are available and in common use in parallel. Code analysis tools – Although nearly 1/3 of developers don’t use these tools (big mistake), the market is rich with complementary technologies like FindBugs, CheckStyle and a platform to bring it all together, SonarQube. Continuous Integration (CI) servers – Jenkins’ dominance here is stronger than ever, yet 1 in 5 developers still don’t use CI as a practice. Databases: SQL and NoSQL – The mature SQL is dominated by Oracle, but the market has a good mix of free/open-source and proprietary offerings from long-time players. NoSQL is a maturing segment that is mainly driven by MongoDB. Version Control Systems (VCS) – Git, supported by the headline-worthy GitHub, is finally reigning supreme over Mercurial as a distributed VCS, and is often used in parallel with the legacy Subversion (SVN). Repositories – A maturing market that still needs a lot of adoption by developers, the legacy market leader Nexus is losing ground to JFrog’s Artifactory. Testing frameworks – In this area, complementary technologies work better together rather than competing, with unit testing, mocking and browser testing all highly practiced using strong tools like JUnit, Mockito and Selenium respectively. Priorities for 2015 – Java 8 (obviously), Continous Delivery / Deployment and Non-Java programming using alternative JVM languages are the 3 top priorities for the next year according to respondents.