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