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June 2008 Archives

JSF Job Stats, Indeed

A couple of years ago I posted some job trend graphs from indeed.com. Since then, it's become the hip thing to do. So, in order to remain hip, I figured it was time for an update...

Granted, in the first entry, I made all of the links live, so it's sort of perpetually updated. Unfortunately, the updated graphs may render the prose inaccurate. This time I'll put the actual images up in order to maintain blog posting integrity.

First up, let's see how JSF is doing against modern web frameworks:

Note that it's #1 in terms of US job postings. On its heels, though, are Flex and Rails, which have more steep adoption curves. Perhaps JSF 2 will help with that :-).

Now, let's compare all of these with Struts:

Man, some things take forever to die... (Struts 2, which is actually quite good, garners a very small percentage of this.)

What about ASP.NET?

Yikes! So, I guess this points to the whole Java market fragmentation problem. If we filter out Flex (more like Silverlight), and Rails (not Java -- well, not always Java), what do we get?

Oh well. Didn't help as much as I had hoped, even with Spring MVC...

Indeed, job stats aren't the ultimate indicator of a product's success... but they are a useful guide. Fortunately, the trends for JSF and several others are upward :-).

Announcing JSFOne

I'm very excited to announce the JSFOne conference, which I'll be hosting along with the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposiums. Jay Zimmerman (the NFJS organizer) and I have been talking about this for at least a year or two, and the time has finally come.

I think we've truly put together an excellent lineup of speakers who are deep into JSF: Ed Burns, David Geary, Keith Donald, Chris Schalk, Michael Yaun, Ed Burns, Max Katz, Ted Goddard, Jeremy Grelle, Stan Silvert, myself, and others.

The conference is tailored for application developers, solution architects, and project managers who develop applications with JavaServer Faces, Seam, Spring, and related technologies. Key topics include:

* JSF 2.0
* Facelets
* Spring integration
* Seam
* iPhone
* Google API integration
* Writing custom components
* Sripting JSF
* Portlet development
* Testing
* Component suites like RichFaces, ICEfaces, and others

The conference will also be running in conjunction with The Rich Web Experience East -- you get two shows for the price of one. The Rich Web Experience is a one-shop-stop for all things related to Ajax, RIAs, and the evolution of the browser.

If this sounds interesting, you should definitely join us at JSFOne this September 4th-6th in the Washington, DC area! (We're also giving away new iPhones, too.)

Also, stay tuned to JSFCentral for new content from our speakers.

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