Overall Survey Results:

ICEfaces Product Survey

How did you first hear about ICEfaces?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Trade show

2.1%

Referral (colleague, word of mouth, etc.)

180

27.3%

Forum or blog

7.1%

Advertising (Banner ad, magazine ad, etc.)

<1%

Analyst report

<1%

Search engine (Google, Yahoo, etc)

103

15.6%

In the news

<1%

White paper

<1%

JBoss Seam affiliation

2.8%

MyEclipse affiliation

2.7%

NetBeans affiliation

117

17.7%

Liferay affiliation

2.2%

GlassFish affiliation

1.5%

Java developer site (ServerSide, DZone etc.)

9.1%

Other

8.5%

No Responses

1.0%

Totals

658

100%

Select which best describes the nature of your involvement with ICEfaces? (select all that apply)

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Evaluating the technology

251

38.7%

Prototyping / Proof of concept stage

192

29.6%

In active development

365

56.3%

Application already in production

158

24.3%

Not using

5.0%

Totals

648

100%

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

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Eclipse

354

54.2%

MyEclipse

100

15.3%

NetBeans

349

53.4%

BEA Workshop

1.8%

Oracle JDeveloper

5.3%

IntelliJ

4.1%

JBuilder

1.3%

IBM Rational Application Developer

5.5%

Redhat Developer Studio (Exadel)

<1%

Other

1.2%

Totals

653

100%

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

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

JBoss

185

28.4%

Tomcat

407

62.5%

IBM WebSphere

10.9%

Oracle AS 10 / BEA WebLogic

12.1%

Glassfish / Sun Application Server

289

44.3%

Jetty

4.4%

SAP NetWeaver

<1%

Other

2.1%

Totals

651

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

203

32.1%

JSF 1.1

13.2%

JSF 1.2

297

46.9%

JSF 2.0

382

60.4%

Facelets

356

56.3%

JBoss Seam

14.3%

Spring Webflow

106

16.7%

Liferay Portal

105

16.6%

WebSphere Portal

4.4%

Tapestry

2.2%

Other

4.9%

Totals

632

100%

What other Ajax/JSF solutions have you evaluated?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

ADF Faces

18.7%

Backbase

2.2%

NetAdvantage

2.0%

QuipuKit / OpenFaces

3.2%

Ajax4JSF/RichFaces

239

48.7%

MyFaces (Tomahawk, Trinidad)

230

46.9%

WebGalileo Faces

<1%

Woodstock

166

33.8%

7.5%

Other

5.1%

Totals

490

100%

How many applications have you developed using ICEfaces?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

266

40.4%

135

20.5%

7.9%

11.0%

None

124

18.8%

No Responses

1.2%

Totals

658

100%

What is the latest ICEfaces version you have downloaded?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

ICEfaces 1.8.x (latest)

436

66.2%

ICEfaces 1.7.x

151

22.9%

ICEfaces 1.6.x

2.7%

ICEfaces 1.5.x

<1%

Don't know?

4.5%

Never downloaded

2.1%

No Responses

<1%

Totals

658

100%

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

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

1-10 Users

158

24.0%

10-100 Users

251

38.1%

100-1,000 Users

136

20.6%

1,000-10,000 Users

8.6%

10,000-100,000 Users

2.8%

100,000+ Users

1.8%

No Responses

3.7%

Totals

658

100%

Do you anticipate deploying your ICEfaces application across a cluster?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Yes, less than 5 servers

214

32.5%

Yes, 5-10 servers

5.7%

Yes, more than 10 server

1.5%

Yes, more than 100 servers

<1%

380

57.7%

No Responses

2.2%

Totals

658

100%

Are you using Ajax Push in your application(s)?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Yes

265

40.2%

272

41.3%

I don't know

109

16.5%

No Responses

1.8%

Totals

658

100%

Do you anticipate needing training, engineering services or commercial support? (select all that apply)

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Training

234

38.6%

Engineering Services

104

17.1%

Functional and/or Load Test Support

11.9%

Commercial Support

14.7%

Nothing

278

45.9%

Other

3.4%

Totals

605

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

616

2.8

Ease of use

613

2.9

Documentation and Tutorials

617

2.6

Frequency of releases

600

2.9

Component suite

618

3.1

Error handling and reporting

607

2.6

Performance and scalability

596

2.8

Overall quality

603

3.0

Webinars & training materials (video, online classes etc.)

569

2.6

Forum support

583

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

Answer	1	2	3	4
Installation/first user experience	38 (6.2%)	143 (23.2%)	316 (51.3%)	119 (19.3%)
Ease of use	27 (4.4%)	142 (23.2%)	315 (51.4%)	129 (21.0%)
Documentation and Tutorials	77 (12.5%)	196 (31.8%)	254 (41.2%)	90 (14.6%)
Frequency of releases	18 (3.0%)	101 (16.8%)	380 (63.3%)	101 (16.8%)
Component suite	14 (2.3%)	65 (10.5%)	392 (63.4%)	147 (23.8%)
Error handling and reporting	43 (7.1%)	189 (31.1%)	326 (53.7%)	49 (8.1%)
Performance and scalability	25 (4.2%)	133 (22.3%)	354 (59.4%)	84 (14.1%)
Overall quality	8 (1.3%)	89 (14.8%)	405 (67.2%)	101 (16.7%)
Webinars & training materials (video, online classes etc.)	45 (7.9%)	193 (33.9%)	255 (44.8%)	76 (13.4%)
Forum support	58 (9.9%)	186 (31.9%)	258 (44.3%)	81 (13.9%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Installation/first user experience

23%

51%

19%

616

2.8

Ease of use

23%

51%

21%

613

2.9

Documentation and Tutorials

12%

32%

41%

15%

617

2.6

Frequency of releases

17%

63%

17%

600

2.9

Component suite

11%

63%

24%

618

3.1

Error handling and reporting

31%

54%

607

2.6

Performance and scalability

22%

59%

14%

596

2.8

Overall quality

15%

67%

17%

603

3.0

Webinars & training materials (video, online classes etc.)

34%

45%

13%

569

2.6

Forum support

10%

32%

44%

14%

583

2.6

Please rate the importance of the following possible ICEfaces roadmap elements:

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

Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Interoperability with 3rd party JSF/AJAX component libraries

587

3.5

Improved portal support

575

3.2

Greater IDE design-time support

595

3.8

Performance optimized JSF runtime technology (>5X enhancement)

579

4.0

Functional test capabilities

586

3.5

Load test capabilities

581

3.4

Enhanced scalability

575

3.7

More ICEfaces components

593

4.0

Support for mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry etc.)

582

3.2

Custom component development APIs with documentation and tutorials

588

4.1

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

Answer	1	2	3	4	5
Interoperability with 3rd party JSF/AJAX component libraries	33 (5.6%)	74 (12.6%)	188 (32.0%)	165 (28.1%)	127 (21.6%)
Improved portal support	58 (10.1%)	135 (23.5%)	145 (25.2%)	128 (22.3%)	109 (19.0%)
Greater IDE design-time support	28 (4.7%)	42 (7.1%)	138 (23.2%)	180 (30.3%)	207 (34.8%)
Performance optimized JSF runtime technology (>5X enhancement)	3 (<1%)	47 (8.1%)	117 (20.2%)	206 (35.6%)	206 (35.6%)
Functional test capabilities	8 (1.4%)	72 (12.3%)	195 (33.3%)	218 (37.2%)	93 (15.9%)
Load test capabilities	15 (2.6%)	94 (16.2%)	199 (34.3%)	198 (34.1%)	75 (12.9%)
Enhanced scalability	10 (1.7%)	69 (12.0%)	147 (25.6%)	232 (40.3%)	117 (20.3%)
More ICEfaces components	6 (1.0%)	21 (3.5%)	138 (23.3%)	230 (38.8%)	198 (33.4%)
Support for mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry etc.)	65 (11.2%)	111 (19.1%)	157 (27.0%)	130 (22.3%)	119 (20.4%)
Custom component development APIs with documentation and tutorials	9 (1.5%)	26 (4.4%)	110 (18.7%)	211 (35.9%)	232 (39.5%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Interoperability with 3rd party JSF/AJAX component libraries

13%

32%

28%

22%

587

3.5

Improved portal support

10%

23%

25%

22%

19%

575

3.2

Greater IDE design-time support

23%

30%

35%

595

3.8

Performance optimized JSF runtime technology (>5X enhancement)

20%

36%

579

4.0

Functional test capabilities

12%

33%

37%

16%

586

3.5

Load test capabilities

16%

34%

13%

581

3.4

Enhanced scalability

12%

26%

40%

20%

575

3.7

More ICEfaces components

23%

39%

33%

593

4.0

Support for mobile devices (iPhone, Blackberry etc.)

11%

19%

27%

22%

20%

582

3.2

Custom component development APIs with documentation and tutorials

19%

36%

39%

588

4.1

When do you anticipate migrating to JSF 2.0?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

As soon as possible

309

46.9%

Before year end (2009)

101

15.3%

Sometime in 2010

148

22.4%

Sometime after 2010

4.5%

Never

4.2%

No Responses

6.3%

Totals

658

100%

What new tutorials would you like to see added?

	Number of Responses
	172

What new components / component functionality would you like to see added?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Rich data grid

432

72.3%

Scheduling component

284

47.5%

Client side validation

381

63.8%

Advanced mapping components

212

35.5%

Charting components

300

50.2%

Bookmarkability

186

31.1%

Cookie disabled browser support

198

33.1%

Rendered PDF

322

53.9%

Other

10.0%

Totals

597

100%

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

626

3.0

*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
Satisfaction with ICEfaces	23 (3.7%)	108 (17.3%)	358 (57.2%)	137 (21.9%)

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Answer

Number of
Responses

Rating
Score*

Satisfaction with ICEfaces

17%

57%

22%

626

3.0

Will you continue to use ICEfaces in the future?

Answer

100%

Number of
Responses

Response
Ratio

Yes

588

89.3%

5.1%

No Responses

5.4%

Totals

658

100%

What can we do better?

	Number of Responses
	237

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