Take the 2022 Jakarta EE Developer Survey
In less than six minutes of your time, you can let the entire cloud native Java industry know what you need to support modern enterprise applications. The Jakarta EE Developer Survey is one of the largest developer surveys in the Java landscape, and the number of responses it generates clearly shows the Java ecosystem believes the results are important.
Since we first released the annual Jakarta EE Developer Survey in 2018, thousands of software developers, architects, and decision-makers from around the world have completed the survey. They see their participation as an opportunity to:
- Build awareness around their development focus area
- Share their perceptions of the cloud native Java industry with the broader ecosystem
- Identify their preferences and priorities for cloud native Java architectures, technologies, and tools
Tell the World What You Need in the Cloud Era
This year, we’re asking survey respondents to look ahead and share their future plans for building modern enterprise applications in the new cloud era. It’s a great way to let Java platform vendors, enterprises, and developers know where you see cloud native Java going and the types of technologies and tools you’ll need to help it get there. With this insight, everyone in the Java ecosystem — you included — will have updated information about how cloud native Java is unfolding and what it means for their strategies and businesses.
The survey is also an excellent opportunity to help the Jakarta EE Working Group understand how it can best evolve Jakarta EE to meet your cloud development requirements and goals. Working Group members are always listening carefully to Java ecosystem requirements so they can ensure Jakarta EE continues to evolve in alignment with the top industry focus areas and priorities. They want to hear from you, and completing the survey is one of the easiest and most effective ways to give them your input.
Survey Results Provide Essential Insights
Over the years, the Jakarta EE Developer Survey has provided many valuable insights into the state of the cloud native Java ecosystem, and the 2021 survey was no exception. Completed by more than 950 individuals, last year’s survey revealed some very interesting trends, including the:
- Fast-growing adoption of Jakarta EE, making it the second-place cloud native framework for the second straight year
- Increased interest in cloud native Java overall
- Increased use of microservices architectures and the decline of monolithic approaches in favor of hybrid architectures
- Need for flexible platforms that can be used to build traditional and cloud native business applications
- Expected growth rates for Java apps in the cloud
To understand the full value of the survey results, read the 2021 Jakarta EE Developer Survey report.
Complete the Jakarta EE Developer Survey Today
We encourage all developers, architects, and decision-makers in the Java ecosystem to add their voice to the survey and help the industry gain the broadest possible view of the state of enterprise cloud native Java.
Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle: Building the Future of Automotive
Today the Eclipse Foundation is announcing a new working group dedicated to developing a new and innovative software platform for the world’s automotive industry. The Eclipse Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) initiative has the support of leading companies across the automotive, IT, cloud, and services industries, all of which are necessary to create the platform and ecosystem that will drive innovation for the next generation of mobility solutions.
The automotive industry today is undergoing a radical transformation. Electrification, autonomous vehicles, advanced driver assistance systems, and ever-increasing consumer expectations about their in-car digital experience, are all happening at once. These trends are dramatically transforming the system architectures embedded in vehicles. Automotive architectures are moving from networks of special purpose devices to something that more closely resembles servers on wheels, where more powerful general purpose computers are responsible for implementing and coordinating the various systems in the automobile, including the ones which keep us and our families safe on the road. And these systems architectures are rapidly changing how automotive software needs to be built.
The vision of SDV is to radically transform the automotive industry by collaboratively developing a common software platform that all participants in the automotive industry can use in an openly licensed, royalty-free manner. From an IT technology perspective this is not particularly radical. After all, open source platforms and “software defined everything” (e.g. storage, networking, data center, radio, etc.) are two of the defining trends in the IT industry over the past decade (or more). In the case of open source platforms the trend has been driven by eliminating the cost of non-differentiating software, decreasing the time to market in delivering complex systems, and reducing risk by relying on proven software platforms and components. “Software defined everything” has largely been driven by Moore’s Law and the resulting cost savings of replacing special purpose devices with general purpose computers running special purpose software.
But from an industry perspective, the technical implications of an openly licensed SDV software platform for the automotive industry are very radical. It will dramatically reshape the automotive industry similar to how software-defined networking reshaped the telecommunications industry. Free software platforms which provide a software stack for the core non-differentiating technologies will quickly lead to disruptive technical and business innovations across the value chain in any industry.
The Eclipse SDV initiative is primarily radical because it is among the first truly open industry collaborations in automotive. Historically, automotive industry groups have delivered standards or specifications available only to members of their respective consortia. Often these innovations were encumbered with FRAND-style licensing arrangements which hindered wide adoption. Eclipse SDV is going to provide a radical departure from this “business as usual” approach in automotive by focusing on open source software stacks, liberally licensed software specifications, and a community-based, collaborative approach to innovation rather than the top-down, architecture-driven, consensus-based models of the past. The mantra of Eclipse SDV is “code first”, and that is definitely a radical idea in automotive. We are humbled by the trust that Accenture, Arm, AVL, Bosch, Capgemini, Continental Automotive, DMI, ETAS, Futurewei Technologies, Karakun, Microsoft, Red Hat, Reycom, SUSE, and ZF are placing in the Eclipse Foundation to act as the steward for this exciting initiative.
I want to sincerely thank everyone who helped get this initiative off the ground and raise awareness about its value to organizations across the automotive industry.
I also want to encourage automotive industry stakeholders of all sizes and with any goals to consider joining the working group. The breadth and depth of in-vehicle software creates opportunities across every area of automotive development — from deployment, configuration, and communications to monitoring, safety, and security. If you or your organization are interested in learning more joining Eclipse SDV, please contact us.
With the Eclipse Foundation’s commitment to transparency, vendor neutrality, and a shared voice, all participants have an equal opportunity to shape the future of the SDV Working Group and play a vital role in the future evolution of the automotive industry.
To learn more about getting involved in the Software-Defined Vehicle Working Group, visit sdv.eclipse.org or email us at membership@eclipse.org.
The Eclipse Foundation #StandWithUkraine
The Eclipse Foundation supports Ukraine in the face of Russia’s invasion, an unprovoked act of aggression on a peaceful neighbor.
This war directly impacts over 30 Eclipse Foundation committers who live and work in Ukraine. Many of them work on the Eclipse Che project, which was named after the city of Cherkasy, where many of them reside. Sadly, Cherkasy is one of the many Ukrainian cities that have been attacked. Our thoughts are with our colleagues in Ukraine, along with all those impacted. We hope you and your families are safe and that this invasion comes to an end quickly.
In the short term, the cessation of war and a return to peace in Ukraine is paramount. In the longer term, it is our hope that peace and prosperity will soon flourish again.
We #StandWithUkraine
Accelerating Innovation Through Open Source – A New Eclipse Foundation eBook
Open source plays a vital role in today’s software-driven world. It’s shifted from commoditizing existing technologies, to the way new innovations achieve mainstream adoption. This can be seen in the many examples of industry-leading tools and technologies that are built on open source software, such as Eclipse ioFog, Eclipse Theia and Eclipse Che.
Our new ebook explores the many reasons why organizations around the world, across almost every industry, are developing open source strategies. Businesses that are actively involved in open source software are able to innovate more efficiently, encourage creativity on their teams, and attract and retain skilled developers.
Of course, the organizations that benefit the most from open source participation are the ones who are putting time and effort into it. In our new ebook, you’ll find out how joining the Eclipse Foundation enables organizations of all types and sizes to contribute to and benefit from open source software under a vendor-neutral governance and legal framework that is unique in the open source world.
For organizations who are already invested in open source through the creation of an Open Source Program Office (OSPO), we explore how foundation membership eases the burdens of ensuring the secure and responsible use of open source, fostering community engagement, driving contributions, and creating new projects.
We also take a look at how the move towards “software-defined everything” is impacting the automotive industry in a number of different ways. Communities such as the OpenADx Working Group, openMDM Working Group, and Eclipse Kuksa project are bringing automotive industry players together to collaborate on the non-competitive aspects of automotive development. This collaboration helps organizations reduce costs by avoiding repetitive development efforts.
A growing number of global corporations are playing a critical role in the development of open source projects through their participation in communities and working groups within the Eclipse Foundation. With 18 working groups and over 415 projects, our members are committed to innovating through open source.
To learn more about how the Eclipse Foundation helps organizations achieve their innovation goals, download Accelerating Innovation Through Open Source.
IoT & Edge Developer Priorities and Challenges
The results of the Eclipse Foundation’s seventh annual IoT & Edge Developer Survey have been compiled and the report is available to download. As in previous years, this year’s survey provides important insights into developer trends and challenges, platform choices, and target markets.
Administered by the Eclipse IoT Working Group, the Edge Native Working Group, and the Sparkplug Working Group, this year’s survey was conducted over a period of seven weeks, starting in late August. We received responses from more than 660 developers, committers, architects, and decision-makers from a broad set of industries and organizations globally.
What Technologies are Developers Choosing?
- IoT and edge developers told us they’re using C and C++ for constrained devices, but prefer Python over Java for edge servers, IoT and edge gateways, and cloud platform development.
- MQTT has emerged as the clear leader in industrial IoT (IIoT) communications protocols. It showed solid growth in adoption over the past year, while protocols such as REST, HTTP/HTTPS, and TCP/IP showed a significant decline in IIoT usage compared to 2020.
- AWS IoT is the preferred middleware, with a significant lead over Microsoft Azure IoT and Google Cloud IoT Platform.
- Artificial intelligence is still the most frequently selected edge computing workload.
- While Arm continues to dominate hardware architectures for constrained devices, gateways, and edge servers, RISC-V and OpenHW Group CORE-V architectures are showing strong market share gains.
Industrial Automation Is the Top Industry Focus Area
While industrial automation has displaced smart agriculture as the leading industry focus area, that doesn’t mean efforts on smart agriculture applications are dropping off. In fact, developer focus on smart agriculture rose seven percent from the 2020 survey results. However, focus on industrial automation rose 13 percent, indicating a sharp increase in demand for these types of applications.
Building automation, emergency management, and smart cities rounded out the top five industry focus areas.
Security Is the Top Concern
Almost half of this year’s survey respondents cited security as their primary worry when developing IoT and edge applications. However, concerns about connectivity, deployment, and integration complexity also rose this year, painting a picture of a changing landscape.
The results underscore the challenges developers face in determining which are the right technologies for the job. They also indicate that more IoT and edge solutions are moving past the proof-of-concept phase as developers look for technologies that help them optimize and integrate production systems to deliver better user experiences.
Get Involved in Eclipse IoT & Edge Native Communities
To stay current with the happenings in the Eclipse IoT Working Group, join the mailing list here.
To join the Eclipse Edge Native Working Group conversation on Slack, click here.
Read the Full Report
For detailed insights, Download the IoT & Edge Developer Survey Results
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