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Top 5 countries

Country name

%

# of developers

USA

36%

94

Germany

14%

54

Canada

14%

27

France

9%

42

Australia

9%

15

For how many years has your organization been using WebObjects?

Less than 2 years

4%

Between 2 and 5 years

20%

Between 6 and 10 years

35%

More than 10 years

41%

Which versions of WebObjects does your organization use?

 

2012

2011

2010

5.4.x

93%

87%

86%

5.3.x

24%

21%

35%

5.2.x

5%

3%

9%

5.1.x

0%

1%

1%

4.5.x (Objective-C)

1%

3%

4%

4.5.x (Java)

0%

3%

2%

4.0.1

1%

1%

1%

Which platforms are used at your organization/department to DEVELOP with WebObjects?

Mac OS X

96%

Windows

9%

Linux

9%

Which platforms are used at your organization/department to DEPLOY WebObjects applications?

 

2012

2011

2010

Mac OS X Server

52%

59%

68%

RedHat/Fedora/CentOS Linux

37%

40%

42%

Debian/Ubuntu Linux

23%

21%

10%

Windows

13%

14%

13%

Amazon Linux

12%

12%

2%

Mac OS X "client"

13%

9%

19%

Solaris

11%

7%

9%

FreeBSD

3%

6%

8%

SuSE Linux/OpenSUSE

1%

1%

0%

Which database systems does your organization use with WebObjects?

 

2012

2011

2010

MySQL

45%

42%

39%

PostgreSQL

38%

44%

39%

Oracle Database

28%

28%

27%

FrontBase

19%

20%

22%

MS SQL Server

14%

14%

12%

H2

2%

6%

1%

OpenBase

6%

8%

8%

Sybase

1%

2%

2%

Derby

2%

1%

1%

Amazon RDS

0%

1%

0%

DB2

0%

1%

2%

HSQLDB

1%

1%

1%

SAP MaxDB

1%

1%

1%

BerkeleyDB JE

1%

N/A

N/A

Apache Cassandra

1%

N/A

N/A

Do you use Project Wonder in your project?

Yes, in all of them

66%

Yes, in some of them

25%

No, but we will use them later

3%

No, and we are not going to use it

5%

Which IDEs does your organization use for WebObjects development?

Eclipse with WOLips

97%

Xcode

10%

Project Builder

3%

Rolled out own

1%

Does your organization use JavaClient?

 

2012

2011

2010

Yes

5%

6%

5%

No

95%

92%

95%

No, but planning in the near future

0%

2%

N/A

Does your organization use DirectToWeb?

 

2012

2011

2010

Yes

42%

42%

42%

No

45%

47%

58%

No, but planning in the near future

12%

12%

N/A

Does your organization use Direct To Web Services?

 

2012

2011

2010

Yes

8%

8%

3%

No

87%

87%

97%

No, but planning in the near future

5%

5%

N/A

Does your organization consume SOAP services using WebObjects?

 

2012

2011

Yes

32%

40%

No

59%

55%

No, but planning in the near future

9%

6%

Does your organization consume REST services using WebObjects?

 

2012

2011

Yes

34%

28%

No

43%

50%

No, but planning in the near future

23%

22%

Does your organization provide REST services using WebObjects?

 

2012

2011

Yes

46%

32%

No

32%

45%

No, but planning in the near future

22%

23%

Does your organization provide SOAP services using WebObjects?

 

2012

2011

Yes

19%

24%

No

72%

69%

No, but planning in the near future

9%

7%

Does your organization use RIA technologies? If yes, which one(s)

 

2012

2011

2010

AJAX framework from Wonder

71%

79%

71%

jQuery

45%

36%

N/A

Cappuccino

2%

6%

1%

Adobe Flex

5%

6%

6%

SproutCore

3%

5%

N/A

Dojo

2%

3%

N/A

GWT

4%

1%

2%

YUI

1%

1%

N/A

Secret Project

2%

N/A

N/A

Sencha Touch

1%

1%

N/A

MooTools

3%

N/A

N/A

DHTMLX

1%

1%

N/A

Our custom framework

3%

N/A

N/A

Do you use WebObjects as a back-end to other Apple technologies, for example to communicate with a iPhone application? If yes, which technologies?

 

2012

2011

iOS apps

32%

29%

Mac desktop (Cocoa)

10%

10%

We don't, but will do in the near future

37%

31%

Does your organization still use WebObjects for new projects?

Yes

85%

No

12%

mixed: WO + Grails

1%

Maybe integrate as back-end with iOS app

1%

looking for alternatives

1%

If you are stopping developing with WebObjects, what are the main reasons for dropping WebObjects at your organization?

Where it makes sense to use it, we will still use it. The space where it makes sense to use WO vs. Rails continues to shrink.

Apple has stopped updating it. We seem to be stuck with an aging version of WebObjects.

No support from Apple, no new versions, hard to find developers, no upper management support. Most people devs would prefer something more main steam like .NET or Java

Since WO is no longer being developed by Apple, we are looking for replacements for future development. Cayenne replaces EOF well. We have yet to examine the web framework side closely, but Tapestry will be the first candidate.

Plan on maintaining projects, but most new projects recently have either been easier to achieve in other frameworks, or required use of MamboDB or similar data stores for scale out needs.

the monitor who crash everytime. EOF is not threaded, ...

Mess with long in the tooth Apple WebObjects Frameworks, which are not open sourced. I am looking at stuff like Google App Engine as a replacement, or node.js. As long as it is clear that there is some corporate backing (App Engine) or Open Source.

  • No development/bugfixes anymore to WebObjects 5.4.x (like 2.1Gb directaction upload limit)
  • more standard Tomcat perspective (easier in Windows, Linux, ...)

No demand. Doing richer client-side apps with more "dumb" backends.

Our company focus is UI/UX development. We are teaming with other companies for programming. We still have some existing WebObjects applications that we will maintain.

EOL product.

Difficulty finding developers

Apple decision to deprecate the WebObjects product.
Risk factor from management point of view
Going for better technologies
Losing skilled WO developer
Lack of support from community

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