2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey

Thank you for participating in the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey. This survey should take you less than 8 minutes to complete.

The survey is organized by the Jakarta EE Working Group, the home of open source cloud native for Java. Your input will help Java ecosystem stakeholders better understand the requirements, priorities, and perceptions of enterprise developer communities. Responses will be collected until April 30, 2021, at 11:59 PM PT.

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* 1. What best describes your role?

Junior developer

Senior developer

Architect

Team leader

Development manager or leader

C-level

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* 2. How many employees work in your organization?

Less than 100

100-500

501-1,000

1,001-5,000

5,001-10,000

More than 10,000

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* 3. What industry do you work in?

Computer and Electronics Manufacturing

Education

Energy/Utilities

Financial Services (e.g., banking, insurance, etc.)

Government

Healthcare & Pharmaceutical

Hospitality / Hotels & Leisure

Manufacturing

Retail & Consumer Services

Software

Telecommunications

Other (please specify)

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* 4. What region are you personally located in?

NA (North America)

EU (Europe)

ME (Middle East)

AF (Africa)

AP (Asia Pacific)

CALA (Caribbean and Latin America)

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* 5. Which programming languages do you use at work? (Select all that apply)

C/C++

Java

JavaScript

Kotlin

Python

Ruby

Rust

Scala

Swift

TypeScript

Other (please specify)

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* 6. What percentage of your applications use multiple languages within their implementation (e.g. Java and Java Script)?

Less than 20%

20-40%

40-60%

60-80%

More than 80%

Don’t know

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* 7. What percentage of your production systems would you estimate your organization built using Java?

Less than 20%

20-40%

40-60%

60-80%

More than 80%

Don’t know

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* 8. What version(s) of Java SE is your organization running in production? (Select all that apply)

Older than Java 6

Java 6

Java 7

Java 8

Java 9

Java 10

Java 11

Java 12

Java 13

Java 14

Java 15

Java 16

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* 9. What Java Development Kit (JDK) distributions are you using for your production applications? (Select all that apply)

AdoptOpenJDK / Eclipse Adoptium

Amazon Corretto

Azul Zulu

Eclipse OpenJ9 / IBM J9

Liberica JDK

Oracle OpenJDK

Oracle JDK (Java SE)

Red Hat OpenJDK

SapMachine

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* 10. What version of Java EE/Jakarta EE is your organization running in production? (Select all that apply)

Older than Java EE 6

Java EE 6

Java EE 7

Java EE 8

Jakarta EE 8

Jakarta EE 9

We don’t run Java EE/Jakarta EE in production

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* 11. Do you plan to migrate to Jakarta EE and when?

Yes, I have already migrated

Yes, within the next 6 months

Yes, within 1-2 years

No, I am not planning to migrate at this time

Unsure

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* 12. What percentage of your Java systems are currently deployed in the cloud?

Less than 20%

20-40%

40-60%

60-80%

More than 80%

Don’t know

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* 13. What percentage of your Java systems will be running in the cloud in two years?

Less than 20%

20-40%

40-60%

60-80%

More than 80%

Don’t know

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* 14. Are you more likely to modernize your existing Java systems for the cloud, or create brand new cloud native services?

Modify existing Java applications for migration the cloud

Develop brand new cloud native applications

No plans to run Java systems in the cloud

Don’t know

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* 15. What architectural approach do you plan to use for implementing your Java systems in the cloud?

Monolith

Microservices

Serverless/Function as a Service

Hybrid

Other (please specify)

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* 16. What is your time frame for building cloud native architectures (microservices, serverless / FaaS, other)?

Currently building cloud native architectures

Plan to within 6 months

Plan to within 12 months

Probably, but not for at least 12 months

No plans to build cloud native architectures

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* 17. What languages do you / will you use to build cloud native applications? (Select all that apply)

C/C++

Java

JavaScript

Kotlin

Microsoft.Net

Python

Ruby

Rust

Scala

Swift

TypeScript

Other (please specify)

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* 18. Which Java frameworks are you using for cloud native applications? (Select all that apply)

Spring/Spring Boot

Dropwizard

Micronaut

MicroProfile

Jakarta EE

Other (please specify)

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* 19. Which runtimes/implementations do you use? (Select all that apply)

Payara Server

Apusic AAS

WildFly

Apache TomCat

FUJITSU Software Enterprise Application Platform

Primeton AppServer

Open Liberty

Oracle WebLogic Server 14c

Apache TomEE

IBM WebSphere Liberty

Jetty

Quarkus

InforSuite Application Server

Thunisoft Application Server

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

kumuluzEE

Fujitsu Launcher

JEUS

Eclipse Glassfish

Helidon

Other (please specify)

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* 20. How would you rank the importance of the following cloud native technologies?

	Important	Neutral	Not Important	Don't Know	Never heard of it
Akka	Akka Important	Akka Neutral	Akka Not Important	Akka Don't Know	Akka Never heard of it
Docker	Docker Important	Docker Neutral	Docker Not Important	Docker Don't Know	Docker Never heard of it
Envoy	Envoy Important	Envoy Neutral	Envoy Not Important	Envoy Don't Know	Envoy Never heard of it
Istio	Istio Important	Istio Neutral	Istio Not Important	Istio Don't Know	Istio Never heard of it
Spring/Spring Boot	Spring/Spring Boot Important	Spring/Spring Boot Neutral	Spring/Spring Boot Not Important	Spring/Spring Boot Don't Know	Spring/Spring Boot Never heard of it
Jakarta EE	Jakarta EE Important	Jakarta EE Neutral	Jakarta EE Not Important	Jakarta EE Don't Know	Jakarta EE Never heard of it
Knative	Knative Important	Knative Neutral	Knative Not Important	Knative Don't Know	Knative Never heard of it
Kubernetes	Kubernetes Important	Kubernetes Neutral	Kubernetes Not Important	Kubernetes Don't Know	Kubernetes Never heard of it
MicroProfile	MicroProfile Important	MicroProfile Neutral	MicroProfile Not Important	MicroProfile Don't Know	MicroProfile Never heard of it
Node.js	Node.js Important	Node.js Neutral	Node.js Not Important	Node.js Don't Know	Node.js Never heard of it
Quarkus	Quarkus Important	Quarkus Neutral	Quarkus Not Important	Quarkus Don't Know	Quarkus Never heard of it
Micronaut	Micronaut Important	Micronaut Neutral	Micronaut Not Important	Micronaut Don't Know	Micronaut Never heard of it
Eclipse Vert.x	Eclipse Vert.x Important	Eclipse Vert.x Neutral	Eclipse Vert.x Not Important	Eclipse Vert.x Don't Know	Eclipse Vert.x Never heard of it

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* 21. Which Java EE/Jakarta EE APIs have you used in the last 12 months? (Select all that apply)

Activation

Annotations

Authentication

Authorization

Batch

Bean Validation

Concurrency

Connectors

Contexts and Dependency Injection

Debugging Support for Other Languages

Dependency Injection

Deployment

Enterprise Beans

Enterprise Web Services

Expression Language

Interceptors

JSON Binding

JSON Processing

Mail

Managed Beans

Management

Messaging

MVC

NoSQL

Persistence

RESTful Web Services

Security

Server Faces

Server Pages

Servlet

SOAP with Attachments

Standard Tag Library

Transactions

Web Services Metadata

WebSocket

XML Binding

XML Registries

XML RPC

XMP Web Services Specification

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* 22. What new feature(s) would you like to see for an existing specification? (Specify specification(s) and new feature(s) with short description)

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* 23. What new specifications would you like to see in the future releases of Jakarta EE?

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* 24. How can the Eclipse Foundation best evolve Jakarta EE to meet your cloud needs? (Select all that apply)

Native integration with Kubernetes / Docker / etc.

Better support for microservices

Improve support for serverless

Faster pace of innovation

Faster support from existing Java EE/Jakarta EE or cloud vendors

Support for new messaging paradigms

Further support for Reactive

Other (please specify)

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* 25. What cloud platform provider does your organization use (select all that apply)?

Alibaba Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Azure

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

IBM Cloud

Oracle Cloud

Red Hat OpenShift

VMware Tanzu

Don’t know

Other (please specify)

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* 26. Which IDEs do you use to develop Jakarta EE applications? (Select all that apply)

Eclipse Che

Eclipse IDE

IntelliJ IDEA

Apache NetBeans

Visual Studio (VS) Code

Don’t know

Other (please specify)

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* 27. Does your organization participate in any open source software foundations? (e.g., Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation)?

Yes

No, but we plan to in the future

No, and we do not plan to

Don't know

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* 28. Would you pay (a few hundred $US) to take a proctored, graded certification exam created by Jakarta EE industry professionals

Yes, a paid certification like this would be valuable and helpful to me

No, a paid certification like this would not be helpful to me

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* 29. Enter your email here to receive a copy of the survey results.
Note: Your contact information will only be used to distribute the results and will not be shared with others.

Name

Email Address

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* 1. What best describes your role?

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* 2. How many employees work in your organization?

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* 3. What industry do you work in?

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* 4. What region are you personally located in?

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* 5. Which programming languages do you use at work? (Select all that apply)

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* 6. What percentage of your applications use multiple languages within their implementation (e.g. Java and Java Script)?

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* 7. What percentage of your production systems would you estimate your organization built using Java?

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* 8. What version(s) of Java SE is your organization running in production? (Select all that apply)

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* 9. What Java Development Kit (JDK) distributions are you using for your production applications? (Select all that apply)

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* 10. What version of Java EE/Jakarta EE is your organization running in production? (Select all that apply)

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* 11. Do you plan to migrate to Jakarta EE and when?

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* 12. What percentage of your Java systems are currently deployed in the cloud?

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* 13. What percentage of your Java systems will be running in the cloud in two years?

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* 14. Are you more likely to modernize your existing Java systems for the cloud, or create brand new cloud native services?

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* 15. What architectural approach do you plan to use for implementing your Java systems in the cloud?

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* 16. What is your time frame for building cloud native architectures (microservices, serverless / FaaS, other)?

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* 17. What languages do you / will you use to build cloud native applications? (Select all that apply)

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* 18. Which Java frameworks are you using for cloud native applications? (Select all that apply)

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* 19. Which runtimes/implementations do you use? (Select all that apply)

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* 20. How would you rank the importance of the following cloud native technologies?

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* 21. Which Java EE/Jakarta EE APIs have you used in the last 12 months? (Select all that apply)

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* 22. What new feature(s) would you like to see for an existing specification? (Specify specification(s) and new feature(s) with short description)

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* 23. What new specifications would you like to see in the future releases of Jakarta EE?

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* 24. How can the Eclipse Foundation best evolve Jakarta EE to meet your cloud needs? (Select all that apply)

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* 25. What cloud platform provider does your organization use (select all that apply)?

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* 26. Which IDEs do you use to develop Jakarta EE applications? (Select all that apply)

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* 27. Does your organization participate in any open source software foundations? (e.g., Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Eclipse Foundation, Linux Foundation)?

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* 28. Would you pay (a few hundred $US) to take a proctored, graded certification exam created by Jakarta EE industry professionals

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* 29. Enter your email here to receive a copy of the survey results. Note: Your contact information will only be used to distribute the results and will not be shared with others.

* 29. Enter your email here to receive a copy of the survey results.
Note: Your contact information will only be used to distribute the results and will not be shared with others.