Evans Data: IBM and BEA tools are tops for SOA
By Manufacturing Business Technology Staff -- Manufacturing Business Technology, 10/19/2007 6:15:00 PM
On the heels of announcing new and enhanced tools, programs, and incentives to accelerate its Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Business Partner community, it's reported that IBM's Rational Application Developer users are the most likely to have SOA projects in development today.
According to the recent Developer's Choice IDE (integrated development environment) user survey conducted by Evans Data Corp., data indicates BEA Weblogic Workshop users are most likely to already have SOA projects deployed. Oracle's JDeveloper and Genuitec's MyEclipse IDEs also were strong in SOA development.
The worldwide survey of more than 1600 IDE users measured SOA development as well as satisfaction with IDE features and capabilities, and user characteristics.
"IBM and BEA have been focused on SOA development and providing superior tools to developers for that purpose for some time," says John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data. "That kind of dedication pays off in more SOA user implementations. On the free and open-source fronts, both Oracle and Genuitec have made great strides to simplify SOA development with their tools, and the strong number of projects in development reflects that."
The survey, conducted this past summer, studied user satisfaction and usage of top IDEs around the globe. In addition, IDE users were profiled as to age, experience, company size, and other demographics. Additional findings:
• Microsoft Visual Studio remains the most used IDE across all regions except Latin America.
• Sun's NetBeans users gave that IDE the best rating of any in terms of the performance of the applications created using it.
• CodeGear's Delphi was deemed the easiest to use, although Adobe's Macromedia Studio users felt it had the best web design tools.
• Delphi's users were the most experienced, while the least experienced developers had adopted Adobe's Macromedia Studio.
