Java problems? Kiss my a**…more Java jobs than anything else out there!
There seems to be a renaissance in Java jobs as the requests for Java programmers continue to outpace requests for any other platform or language in discussion groups and mailing lists.
I did a quick check on dice.com and found more than 15,000 Java jobs, which compares very nicely against about 13,000 overall Dotnet (and this includes all the cheap asp.net and perhaps “.net” that’s not related to dotnet at all), only about 5000 C# listings (what happened to all the C# is THE java-killer talk out there? LOL), about 1000 listings for PHP, and only 200 or so listings for Ruby (haha!!!).
I’ve also noticed how many Windows and other developers are being introduced to Java because of the success of Java ME’s MIDP, and I tell ya that just warms my heart!
So? You guys can gripe all you want about how heavy-weight EJBs are (I do and I use Spring, but so what? In this world there are niches for almost everything, so being heavyweight per se is NOT a bad thing), or how Java is so 1990s (duh! Guess they haven’t checked all the language popularity rankings recently, eh?), but just looking at all the stats, it looks like Java is THE platform for the 21st century!
And if anyone tells you otherwise, just tell them asj would like a little word with them - in private 