Overall Survey Results:

ICEfaces Product Survey

What geographical location are you located in?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Asia

19.0%

Central America

1.4%

Europe

198

40.0%

Middle East

1.8%

North America (USA, Canada, Mexico)

100

20.2%

Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, etc.)

1.2%

South America

11.7%

Other

3.4%

No Responses

1.0%

Totals

494

100%

Select which of the following best describes the industry your application is targeted at:

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Financial

12.5%

Defense, Aerospace

<1%

Manufacturing, Logistics

6.2%

Government

9.3%

Energy, Utilities

2.2%

Education

7.2%

Media (Newspaper, Television, etc.)

1.4%

Entertainment

1.8%

Independent Software Vendor (ISV)

14.9%

Telecom, Networking

10.1%

Healthcare

4.2%

Insurance

2.8%

Retail

1.8%

Transportation

4.0%

Consulting

9.3%

Other

9.7%

No Responses

1.2%

Totals

494

100%

How many employees does your company have?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

1-10

127

25.7%

10-50

100

20.2%

50-100

8.5%

100-1000

112

22.6%

1000-5000

8.7%

5000+

12.3%

No Responses

1.8%

Totals

494

100%

How did you first hear about ICEfaces?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Trade show

<1%

Referal (colleague, word of mouth, etc.)

106

21.4%

Forum or blog

8.2%

Advertising (Banner ad, magazine ad, etc.)

<1%

Analyst report

1.0%

Search engine (Google, Yahoo, etc)

17.8%

In the news

1.6%

White paper

<1%

JBoss Seam affiliation

4.4%

MyEclipse affiliation

4.4%

NetBeans affiliation

5.6%

Liferay affiliation

2.6%

GlassFish affiliation

<1%

Java developer site (ServerSide, DZone, JSF Central, etc.)

110

22.2%

Other

6.2%

No Responses

2.0%

Totals

494

100%

Which development environments (IDEs) do you use? (select all that apply)

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Eclipse

347

70.9%

MyEclipse

122

24.9%

NetBeans

211

43.1%

BEA Workshop

3.0%

Oracle JDeveloper

11.4%

IntelliJ

7.7%

JBuilder

3.4%

IBM Rational Application Developer

8.9%

Redhat Developer Studio (Exadel)

3.2%

Other

2.0%

Totals

489

100%

What Java Application Servers do you use for deployment? (select all that apply)

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

JBoss

204

41.8%

Tomcat

358

73.5%

IBM WebSphere

18.4%

BEA WebLogic

13.9%

Oracle AS

12.5%

Glassfish / Sun Application Server

140

28.7%

Jetty

5.3%

SAP NetWeaver

<1%

Other

2.0%

Totals

487

100%

What additional Java EE technologies would you like to use with ICEfaces? (select all that apply)

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

JSP

232

49.0%

JSF 1.1

126

26.6%

JSF 1.2

385

81.3%

Facelets

254

53.6%

JBoss Seam

18.3%

Spring Web Flow

127

26.8%

Tapestry

2.3%

Other

3.5%

Totals

473

100%

What other Ajax/JSF solutions have you evaluated?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

ADF Faces

22.5%

Backbase

4.4%

NetAdvantage

4.1%

QuipuKit

1.8%

Ajax4JSF/RichFaces

212

55.0%

MyFaces (Tomahawk, Trinidad)

231

60.0%

WebGalileo Faces

1.8%

Woodstock

13.5%

7.7%

Other

9.3%

Totals

385

100%

Select which best describes the nature of your JavaServer Faces (JSF) development?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Creating a new JSF application

365

73.8%

Enhancing an existing JSF application

6.8%

Converting an exiting Struts application to JSF

7.0%

Converting a legacy client-server application to JSF (VB, PowerBuilder, etc.)

7.2%

Other

1.6%

No Responses

3.2%

Totals

494

100%

How long have you been developing with ICEfaces?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Less than 1 month

108

21.8%

1-2 months

19.8%

2-4 months

112

22.6%

4-6 months

14.9%

More than 6 months

9.7%

Not developing

9.1%

No Responses

1.8%

Totals

494

100%

Which version of ICEfaces are you currently using?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

ICEfaces 1.7.0 (latest)

273

55.2%

ICEfaces 1.6.2

108

21.8%

ICEfaces 1.6.1

7.2%

ICEfaces 1.6.0

2.8%

ICEfaces 1.5.3

1.4%

Don't know?

6.6%

Other

1.2%

No Responses

3.4%

Totals

494

100%

When will your ICEfaces application be deployed?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Already deployed

14.3%

Less than 3 months

126

25.5%

3-6 months

116

23.4%

6-12 months

10.7%

More than 12 months

9.1%

Never

12.9%

No Responses

3.8%

Totals

494

100%

What is the estimated number of users for your ICEfaces application?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

1-10 Users

17.2%

10-100 Users

150

30.3%

100-1,000 Users

133

26.9%

1,000-10,000 Users

12.9%

10,000-100,000 Users

3.8%

100,000+ Users

3.6%

No Responses

5.0%

Totals

494

100%

Will you require any of the following services during application development? (select all that apply)

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Commercial Support

14.9%

Training

127

29.6%

Engineering Services

18.4%

None of the above

230

53.6%

Other

4.8%

Totals

429

100%

Rate your satisfaction with the level of community support currently provided on the Forums?

1 = Dissatisfied , 2 = Average , 3 = Good , 4 = Excellent

Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Forum Support

465

2.6

*The Rating Score is the weighted average calculated by dividing the sum of all weighted ratings by the number of total responses.

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1 = Dissatisfied , 2 = Average , 3 = Good , 4 = Excellent

Answer	1	2	3	4
Forum Support	19 (4.1%)	185 (39.8%)	221 (47.5%)	40 (8.6%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Forum Support

40%

48%

465

2.6

Will you require commercial support once your application is deployed?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Yes

15.5%

379

76.7%

No Responses

7.6%

Totals

494

100%

Rate your level of satisfaction with each of the following:

1 = Poor , 2 = Fair , 3 = Good , 4 = Excellent

Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Installation/first user experience

451

2.8

Ease of use

454

2.9

Documentation

450

2.6

Tutorials and code examples

453

2.7

Component suite

449

3.0

Error handling and reporting

444

2.5

Performance

447

2.7

Overall quality

446

2.9

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1 = Poor , 2 = Fair , 3 = Good , 4 = Excellent

Answer	1	2	3	4
Installation/first user experience	33 (7.3%)	93 (20.6%)	260 (57.6%)	65 (14.4%)
Ease of use	16 (3.5%)	93 (20.5%)	284 (62.6%)	61 (13.4%)
Documentation	47 (10.4%)	150 (33.3%)	207 (46.0%)	46 (10.2%)
Tutorials and code examples	31 (6.8%)	133 (29.4%)	219 (48.3%)	70 (15.5%)
Component suite	6 (1.3%)	75 (16.7%)	262 (58.4%)	106 (23.6%)
Error handling and reporting	32 (7.2%)	166 (37.4%)	221 (49.8%)	25 (5.6%)
Performance	26 (5.8%)	126 (28.2%)	256 (57.3%)	39 (8.7%)
Overall quality	8 (1.8%)	69 (15.5%)	332 (74.4%)	37 (8.3%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Installation/first user experience

21%

58%

14%

451

2.8

Ease of use

20%

63%

13%

454

2.9

Documentation

10%

33%

46%

10%

450

2.6

Tutorials and code examples

29%

48%

15%

453

2.7

Component suite

17%

58%

24%

449

3.0

Error handling and reporting

37%

50%

444

2.5

Performance

28%

57%

447

2.7

Overall quality

15%

74%

446

2.9

Please rate the importance of the following ICEfaces product enhancements:

1 = Not Important , 2 = Neutral , 3 = Nice to Have , 4 = Important , 5 = Very Important

Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Test and debug tools

450

3.8

Interoperability with other JSF/AJAX components

447

3.7

Portal integration

440

3.3

IDE design-time support

445

3.9

Ajax security

440

3.8

Custom component development APIs with documentation and tutorials

444

3.8

Accessibility

438

3.4

More ICEfaces components

446

3.8

Mobile Ajax

442

3.0

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Answer	1	2	3	4	5
Test and debug tools	7 (1.6%)	44 (9.8%)	101 (22.4%)	168 (37.3%)	130 (28.9%)
Interoperability with other JSF/AJAX components	17 (3.8%)	56 (12.5%)	96 (21.5%)	152 (34.0%)	126 (28.2%)
Portal integration	30 (6.8%)	95 (21.6%)	118 (26.8%)	124 (28.2%)	73 (16.6%)
IDE design-time support	14 (3.1%)	41 (9.2%)	96 (21.6%)	134 (30.1%)	160 (36.0%)
Ajax security	5 (1.1%)	48 (10.9%)	91 (20.7%)	167 (38.0%)	129 (29.3%)
Custom component development APIs with documentation and tutorials	10 (2.3%)	38 (8.6%)	108 (24.3%)	151 (34.0%)	137 (30.9%)
Accessibility	18 (4.1%)	72 (16.4%)	121 (27.6%)	157 (35.8%)	70 (16.0%)
More ICEfaces components	6 (1.3%)	28 (6.3%)	127 (28.5%)	151 (33.9%)	134 (30.0%)
Mobile Ajax	58 (13.1%)	112 (25.3%)	121 (27.4%)	85 (19.2%)	66 (14.9%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Test and debug tools

10%

22%

37%

29%

450

3.8

Interoperability with other JSF/AJAX components

13%

21%

34%

28%

447

3.7

Portal integration

22%

27%

28%

17%

440

3.3

IDE design-time support

22%

30%

36%

445

3.9

Ajax security

11%

21%

38%

29%

440

3.8

Custom component development APIs with documentation and tutorials

24%

34%

31%

444

3.8

Accessibility

16%

28%

36%

16%

438

3.4

More ICEfaces components

28%

34%

30%

446

3.8

Mobile Ajax

13%

25%

27%

19%

15%

442

3.0

Rate your overall level of satisfaction with ICEfaces:

1 = Dissatisfied , 2 = Average , 3 = Good , 4 = Excellent

Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Satisfaction with ICEfaces

469

2.8

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Answer	1	2	3	4
Satisfaction with ICEfaces	16 (3.4%)	98 (20.9%)	297 (63.3%)	58 (12.4%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Satisfaction with ICEfaces

21%

63%

12%

469

2.8

Will you continue to use ICEfaces in the future?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Yes

439

88.8%

7.4%

No Responses

3.6%

Totals

494

100%

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