Java 2017
The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey in 2018

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The Java questions were only shown to the developers who chose Java as one of their three primary programming languages.

Which versions of Java do you regularly use?

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Please also note that Java 10 is missing from the list as it was released after the Developer Ecosystem Survey 2018 was launched.

Usage of older Java versions is decreasing as compared with 2017: Java 6 decreased by 4% and Java 7 by 16%.

What application servers do you regularly use, if any?

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Which frameworks do you use as an alternative to an application server, if any?

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Interesting fact: while 37% of Java developers use Java EE 8, another 37% of Java devs do not use Java EE or J2SE at all.

How do you package your web applications?

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This question was only answered by respondents who used application servers or frameworks as alternatives to application servers.

20% of developers package their web apps as a Docker image. Check out more in the DevOps section.

What web frameworks do you use, if any? (%)

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Developers are moving away from web frameworks: the number of Java devs who do not use any frameworks has increased by 7% compared to 2017.

Which IDE / editor do you use the most?
Which build systems do you regularly use, if any?

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Compared to 2017, Maven and Ant have lost ground while the share for Gradle has grown by 5%.

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C
Python
Scala
Team tools
Raw data
C++
PHP
JavaScript
DevOps
C#
Ruby
Kotlin
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