Java trends: Top 10 Frameworks in 2020

In our survey, we want to know what technologies will be particularly relevant for you this year. The areas in question are:

Programming languages
Frameworks
UI & web technologies
CI/CD, containers, microservices
Cloud technologies
Software architecture
Data processing & storage

You can choose from various topics and tools, which you can rate from “very interesting” to “neutral” to “not interesting at all”.

-> The survey is open until the end of February – so it’s not too late to participate!

Let’s take a look at the interim results. Which frameworks will interest you most in 2020?

Application frameworks

Among the application frameworks, there is a clear winner, and it’s called Spring! Both Spring Boot (No. 1) and Spring Framework (No. 2) are well ahead of the competition – especially ahead of Jakarta EE.

For the ranking shown below, we have summed up the scores for “interesting” and “very interesting” and highlighted them in green.

Third place, which goes to the Quarkus framework, is noteworthy. For 22% of the participants, Quarkus is “very interesting” this year, for 25% at least “interesting”. This is a remarkable result considering the short time the framework has been in existence – it was launched by Red Hat in 2018.

Web frameworks

JavaScript dominates on the web. Angular, Vue, React and Node come in ahead of Spring MVC, the first Java-based web framework on the list.

The dominance of JavaScript in itself comes of no surprise – even in our last survey in 2018, JS frameworks were ahead. However, Vue.js has made a significant leap forward. While the framework was ranked 5th in the last survey, it was able to work its way up to 2nd place in 2020.