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Organization survey
Organization details
Please specify the countries where WebObjects developers in your organization are located.
Answer |
# of respondants |
# of developers |
|---|---|---|
USA |
32 |
141 |
Germany |
13 |
36 |
Canada |
10 |
32 |
United Kingdom |
8 |
15 |
Australia |
6 |
28 |
France |
5 |
31 |
Mexico |
4 |
17 |
India |
3 |
11 |
Italy |
3 |
3 |
Switzerland |
3 |
6 |
Belgium |
2 |
1 |
Brazil |
2 |
5 |
Japan |
2 |
3 |
Portugal |
2 |
3 |
Bolivia |
1 |
1 |
Denmark |
1 |
2 |
Ecuador |
1 |
2 |
Hong Kong |
1 |
1 |
Hungary |
1 |
1 |
Kenya |
1 |
1 |
Netherlands |
1 |
3 |
New Zealand |
1 |
1 |
Philippines |
1 |
3 |
Poland |
1 |
3 |
Qatar |
1 |
3 |
Russia |
1 |
5 |
Slovakia |
1 |
4 |
What is the size of your organization?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
SOHO (1 to 9 employees) |
53% |
54 |
Small business (10 to 99 employees) |
25% |
25 |
Medium business (100 to 999 employees) |
8% |
8 |
Enterprise (1000 to 4999 employees) |
5% |
5 |
Large enterprise (5000+) |
2% |
2 |
Government |
1% |
1 |
College/university |
9% |
9 |
K-12 |
0% |
0 |
For how many years has your organization been using WebObjects?
Average of 5 years
Years range |
# of respondants |
|---|---|
0-2 years |
16 |
3-5 years |
28 |
6-9 years |
29 |
10 years and more |
28 |
Development
Which versions of WebObjects does your organization use? (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
5.4.x |
71% |
71 |
5.3.x |
61% |
63 |
5.2.x |
18% |
18 |
5.1.x |
1% |
1 |
5.0.x |
0% |
0 |
4.5.x (Objective-C) |
7% |
7 |
4.5.x (Java) |
3% |
3 |
Which platforms are used at your organization/department to develop with WebObjects? (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Mac OS X |
96% |
99 |
Windows |
17% |
17 |
Linux |
15% |
15 |
Solaris |
1% |
1 |
Which database systems does your organzation use with WebObjects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
MySQL |
47% |
48 |
Oracle Database |
33% |
34 |
PostgreSQL |
32% |
33 |
FrontBase |
28% |
29 |
MS SQL Server |
15% |
15 |
OpenBase |
14% |
14 |
Sybase |
4% |
4 |
Ingres |
1% |
1 |
HSQLDB |
1% |
1 |
SimpleDB |
1% |
1 |
MaxDB |
1% |
1 |
Interbase |
1% |
1 |
If you are using commercial or free WebObjects frameworks not provided by Apple or your own, please specify which ones? (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Wonder |
81% |
83 |
GVC Frameworks |
8% |
8 |
Houdah Frameworks |
7% |
7 |
LEWOStuff |
5% |
5 |
WireHose |
3% |
3 |
WOX |
3% |
3 |
Cocktail Consortium |
2% |
2 |
Noxymo |
1% |
1 |
SVGObjects |
1% |
1 |
SOPE |
1% |
1 |
LSkit |
1% |
1 |
JBND |
1% |
1 |
Which is the primary IDE at your organization for WebObjects development?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Eclipse with WOLips |
83% |
85 |
Xcode |
12% |
12 |
Project Builder |
2% |
2 |
IntelliJ IDEA |
2% |
2 |
Java (Idea, Eclipse, etc.) IDE with the Standalone Entity Modeler application |
1% |
1 |
Jbuilder with WOLips |
1% |
1 |
Do you develop with other Apple technologies beside WebObjects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Cocoa (Mac OS X) |
60% |
30 |
CocoaTouch (iPhone) |
62% |
31 |
AppleScript |
36% |
18 |
QuickTime |
24% |
12 |
Carbon |
4% |
2 |
Is WebObjects the primary Web (or Java desktop) development environnement at your organization?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
79% |
77 |
No |
21% |
20 |
Use of WebObjects technologies
Does your organization use JavaClient?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
11% |
11 |
No |
89% |
91 |
Does your organization use Direct To Web?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
31% |
32 |
No |
69% |
70 |
Does your organization use Direct To Web Services?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
9% |
9 |
No |
91% |
93 |
Does your organization consume Web Services (SOAP, REST, or other) using WebObjects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
56% |
57 |
No |
44% |
45 |
Does your organization provide Web Services (SOAP, REST, or other) using WebObjects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
57% |
58 |
No |
43% |
44 |
Does your organization deploy WebObjects applications as part of a SOA infrastructure?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
26% |
27 |
No |
74% |
75 |
Does your organization use RIA technologies? If yes, which one(s). (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
It's plain old HTML for us |
35% |
36 |
AJAX (with Wonder) |
59% |
60 |
AJAX (without Wonder) |
26% |
27 |
Adobe Flex (without WOX) |
8% |
8 |
Adobe Flex (with WOX) |
5% |
5 |
Flash |
2% |
2 |
OpenLaszlo |
1% |
1 |
Mozilla XUL |
1% |
1 |
Cappucino |
1% |
1 |
GWT |
1% |
1 |
SproutCore |
1% |
1 |
JavaFX |
0% |
0 |
Microsoft SilverLight |
0% |
0 |
Does your organization has standardized on Maven for building your WebObjects applications?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
No, and we don't plan to use Maven |
55% |
55 |
No, but we are looking at using Maven |
34% |
34 |
Yes, we use Maven for building all of our WebObjects applications |
6% |
6 |
Yes, we use Maven for building some of our WebObjects applications |
1% |
1 |
Other |
4% |
4 |
Does your organization use a build system (Hudson, Continuum, etc.) for your WebObjects applications?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
19% |
19 |
No |
81% |
82 |
HR/training
Does your organization require that candidates already have WebObjects knowledge?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
17% |
16 |
No |
83% |
79 |
Do you have a hard time trying to find candidates with WebObjects knowledge?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
71% |
66 |
No |
29% |
27 |
Is your organization considering dropping WebObjects because of the scarcity of WebObjects developers?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
18% |
17 |
No |
82% |
79 |
Are you aware that a WebObjects conference, WOWODC, was held in 2007 and 2008?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
89% |
89 |
No |
11% |
11 |
Deployment
What is your primary deployment platform?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Mac OS X Server |
49% |
48 |
RedHat or CentOS Linux |
13% |
13 |
Solaris |
10% |
10 |
Mac OS X "client" |
9% |
9 |
Windows |
6% |
6 |
Other Linux distribution |
6% |
6 |
FreeBSD |
5% |
5 |
SUSE Linux |
0% |
0 |
Other BSD distribution |
0% |
0 |
Does your organization deploy WebObjects applications in a J2EE container (Tomcat, Jboss, etc.)?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes, all of our applications are deployed in a J2EE container |
6% |
6 |
Yes, some of our applications are deployed in a J2EE container |
20% |
19 |
No, we never deploy applications in a J2EE environment |
74% |
72 |
WebObjects future
Does your organization develop with another Web technology beside WO? (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
We only use WebObjects |
41% |
40 |
PHP |
27% |
26 |
Ruby On Rails |
14% |
14 |
.NET |
9% |
9 |
J2EE Web framework (Spring, Struts, Tapestry, JSF, ...) |
21% |
20 |
J2EE Persistence-Layer framework (Hibernate, Cayenne, ...) |
16% |
16 |
PERL |
8% |
8 |
Python |
2% |
2 |
Django |
2% |
2 |
Other |
8% |
8 |
Did your organization was developping with another Web technology before starting using WebObjects? (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
We started with WebObjects |
56% |
54 |
PHP |
16% |
16 |
Ruby On Rails |
3% |
3 |
.NET |
5% |
5 |
J2EE Web framework (Spring, Struts, Tapestry, JSF, ...) |
12% |
12 |
J2EE Persistence-Layer framework (Hibernate, Cayenne, ...) |
6% |
6 |
PERL |
11% |
11 |
Other |
18% |
17 |
Does your organization still use WebObjects for new projects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
90% |
87 |
No |
4% |
4 |
Other |
6% |
6 |
Does your organization plan to stop using WebObjects in the next 12 months?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
No |
88% |
85 |
Yes |
4% |
4 |
Maybe, it depends of the feature set of newer releases |
8% |
8 |
Individual Survey
How many years of IT experience do you have?
Average of 13 years
How many years of WO experience do you have?
Average of 6 years
Years range |
# of respondants |
|---|---|
0-2 years |
18 |
3-5 years |
24 |
6-9 years |
34 |
10 years and more |
20 |
Please rate your WebObjects knowledge
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Novice |
10% |
10 |
Intermediate |
41% |
39 |
Advanced |
49% |
47 |
What kind of programming background did you have before learning WebObjects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
C/C++ |
66% |
63 |
Standard Java (JRE) |
57% |
54 |
Objective-C (Cocoa, NeXTStep, OpenStep, YellowBox) |
27% |
26 |
PHP |
26% |
25 |
PERL |
18% |
17 |
J2EE (Spring, Struts, JSF, etc.) |
15% |
14 |
None |
6% |
6 |
.NET |
4% |
4 |
Other, please specify |
29% |
28 |
How much % of your time in your work week do you develop with WebObjects?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Less than 25% |
23% |
22 |
Between 25% and 49% |
18% |
17 |
Between 50% and 75% |
17% |
16 |
More than 75% |
43% |
41 |
Which problems did you have while learning WebObjects?
Answer |
# of respondants |
|---|---|
Lack of documentation |
21 |
Mastering the toolchain |
8 |
Learning the concepts (EOF, components, etc.) |
23 |
Lack of tutorials/code |
12 |
How did you start using WebObjects?
Answer |
# of respondants |
|---|---|
Took a new job where WO is used |
34 |
Learn about it on Apple's (or NeXT) Web site |
23 |
Found it in the dev tools and was curious |
12 |
Other, please specify |
9 |
Read about it on an another Web site outside of Apple or NeXT |
5 |
Word of mouth/friend |
5 |
Worked at NeXT/Apple |
4 |
Learn about it at WWDC |
3 |
Read about it in a magazine |
2 |
Local user group presentation/demo |
2 |
Read about it on wocommunity.org |
1 |
books in local bookstore |
1 |
Wonder Survey
Does your applications and frameworks extends from ERXSession and/or ERXApplication ?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes, all of them |
60% |
54 |
Yes, some of them |
26% |
23 |
None of them |
14% |
13 |
Do you use Wonder in Maven-managed projects ?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
8% |
7 |
No |
92% |
81 |
Do you use Wonder in J2EE (servlet) deployed applications ?
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
Yes |
25% |
22 |
No |
75% |
66 |
Which versions of WebObjects do you use with Wonder? (Multiple answers)
Answer |
Percentage |
# of respondants |
|---|---|---|
5.4 |
74% |
66 |
5.3 |
56% |
50 |
5.2 |
4% |
3 |