Attendee OpinionsEvery morning at the Symposium we asked the audience a set of questions (submitted by the attendees) about their opinions of things, using a live hand-held survey technology that would then spit the results up onto a powerpoint slide. What followed was a fascinating look at the perspectives of the Java developers in attendance:
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| Should Java be open sourced? |
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| Yes |
58.6% |
| No |
41.4% |
| Vote count: |
239 |
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| How does your organization treat open source software? |
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| No policy. Do what you want |
31.8% |
| Use it if a senior team member can approve it |
23.4% |
| Mgt or higher has to approve its use |
16.9% |
| Formal review process including legal dept. approval |
22.9% |
| What is open source? We buy everything |
5.0% |
| Vote count: |
201 |
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| What is the biggest challenge in designing web applications? |
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| Application maintainability |
34.3% |
| Ease of development |
27.1% |
| Fit with existing architecture |
18.1% |
| The ability to leverage existing developers' skills |
9.5% |
| Code re-use |
11.0% |
| Vote count: |
210 |
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| What does "RIA" Stand for? |
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| Really Interesting Architecture |
1.4% |
| Rich Internet Application |
63.3% |
| Rolling in Acronyms |
11.4% |
| All of the above |
23.8% |
| Vote count: |
210 |
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| What is your preferred Java IDE? |
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| Eclipse |
53.3% |
| emacs |
2.1% |
| IDEA |
19.8% |
| Java Studio |
0.8% |
| JBuilder |
6.6% |
| JDeveloper |
3.3% |
| Netbeans |
2.5% |
| vim |
3.3% |
| WSAD |
7.4% |
| other |
0.8% |
| Vote count: |
242 |
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| What is your preferred Web framework |
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| Struts |
47.0% |
| Spring |
20.9% |
| Tapestry |
7.9% |
| Webwork |
8.8% |
| Other |
15.3% |
| Vote count: |
215 |