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<%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> XML Developer Survey

Please take a moment to participate in the <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> XML Developer Survey. 500 people to submit a completed survey before December 31, 2004 will receive a free <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> t-shirt. Limit survey entry per person. Note: We really do send out t-shirts! Click here for a list of past lucky winners, from over 24 countries worldwide!

(1) Company name:
(2) Company size:
(3) Company industry:
Government Financial services
Healthcare Manufacturing
Retail Software vendor
Education/Training/Academic Telecommunications
IT Consulting Publishing
Other (specify)
(4) Job Title:
Software Engineer Instructor/Teacher/Professor/Student
System Analyst Technical Director
Web Developer Project/Program/Product Manager
Product Architect President/Principal/Owner
IT Consultant CTO
Technical Support Engineer CEO
Other (specify)
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(4) Job title:
Software Engineer Publishing
Application Architect Publishing
Web Developer Publishing
IT Consultant Publishing
System Analyst Publishing
Database Administrator Publishing
Other (specify)
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(5) How long have you used the following XML technologies?

  Never — No plans to use. Never — Plan to next year. < 6 Months 6 Mon-1 Yr. 1-2 Yrs. 2-3 Yrs. 3-4 Yrs. +4 Yrs.
XML
XML Schema
DTD
XSLT
XPath
XQuery
SQL/XML (The ISO Standard NOT Microsoft SQLXML)
Web Services

(6) What programming languages do you currently use in your work? (check all that apply)

Java C++ C#
VB VB.NET Perl
Python Cobol Progress 4GL
Others (specify):

(7) What Web/scripting languages do you currently use in your work? (check all that apply)

ASP ASP.NET JSP
ColdFusion PHP JavaScript
VBScript/JScript Perl Flash
Others (specify):

(8) What are your primary development tools? (check all that apply)

Visual Studio .NET Visual C++ Eclipse
Borland JBuilder BEA Weblogic Workshop Oracle JDeveloper
JetBrains IntelliJ NetBeans IDE (SunOne) Macromedia Dreamweaver
Microsoft Frontpage Adobe Photoshop Altova XMLSPY
<%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> Rational Rose UltraEdit
OxygenXML Editor Altova Mapforce Macromedia Flash
Others (specify):

(9) Rate the importance of the following XML development tool features as they pertain to your daily work.

  Not Important (would never use) Somewhat Important Important (would certainly use) Must-Have (a requirement!)
Integration with MSFT Visual Studio .NET
Integration with Eclipse Java IDE
Native Edition of <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> for Linux
XSLT editor
Visual XML Mapper
XSLT debugger
XSLT profiling (Benchmarking)
Visual XML-to-HTML designer
Visual XSL:FO designer
Visual SVG Editor
RSS Authoring Support
WYSIWYG XML document editor
Visual XML Schema designer
XML Schema generators (e.g., from database tables, class files, etc.)
XForms editor
XQuery editor
Visual XQuery Mapper (XQuery code generator)
XQuery Debugger
XQuery Profiler (Benchmarking)
Non XML-to-XML mapper (eg: EDI, Text, CSV, Binary, etc.)
ISO SQL/XML support (NOT Microsoft SQLXML)
WSDL Editor
Multi-step data transformation workflow designer (XML Pipelining)
XML Schema-to-Java data binding generator (e.g., Generate JAXB, XMLBeans)
Java-XML application generator
XML Schema-to-C++/C# data binding generator (e.g., Microsoft's XSD)
C++, C# application generator
Web service code generator
XML differencing
XML Schema Differencing (Schema Evolution, Versioning)
Tabluar editing view, like a spreadsheet, for manipulating XML data
XML Namespace Editing Features
Support for Relax NG
JSP 1.2/2.0 Editor
  Not Important (would never use) Somewhat Important Important (would certainly use) Must-Have (a requirement!)

(10) Do you have XML development tool feature requests that are not in the preceding list? If so, please describe:

(11) Which of the following statements best describes your software development environment and platform and preferences?

I would prefer to use a native build of <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> for the Linux platform.
I would prefer to use <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> as a Visual Studio .NET plug-in rather then a stand-alone Windows application.
I would prefer to use <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> as an Eclipse plug-in rather then a stand-alone Windows application.
I would prefer to use <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%> as a stand-alone Windows Application.
Other (specify):

(12) Which of the following best characterizes your most typical use of XML technologies?

Data aggregation/data integration
Report generation
Content management/single-source publishing
Electronic commerce (B2B or B2C)
Education and training
Other (specify):

(13) Which of the following code generation scenarios is most important to you? (choose one only)

Generating Programming Language-to-XML Data Bindings
XML Application Framework Generation
XML Application Generation and Embeddable Components (file adaptors, XQuery processors, etc.)
I am not interested in code generators
Other (specify):

(14) Which of the following reasons best characterizes your underlying rationale for adopting XQuery (Choose one only)

Simplifies XML Data Access and Transformation
A more concise/easier syntax and programming style
To unify heterogeneous data sources (flat files, databases, XML, etc)
I am not interested in XQuery
Other (specify):

(15) What are your primary XML data transformation(s)? (choose all that apply)

HTML-to-XML XML-to-HTML XML-to-PDF
XML-to-XML Relational Database to XML XML-to-Relational Database
EDI-to-XML Flat File (CSV, TSV, binary)-to-XML Live Web Service Data-to-XML
Others (specify):
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XML-to-XML Flat file-to-XML EDI-to-XML
RDBMS-to-XML XML-to-RDBMS XML-to-HTML
Others (specify):

(15) Which data provider technology do you use to access non-XML data sources ? (check all that apply)

JDBC ODBC ADO
ADO.NET SQL/XML SAX/DOM
Other commercial adapter/connectors (specify):
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(16) What XML components do you use? (check all that apply)

Saxon Apache Xalan Apache Xerces
Apache FOP XSV MSXML
.NET XML (System.XML) Pathan Oracle XML Parser
Batik (SVG) JDOM XML Beans
Other components/processors (specify):

(17) What databases do you use? (check all that apply)

Oracle Microsoft SQL Server IBM DB/2
Sybase Informix MySQL
Postgresql Tamino XML Server Progress RDBMS
SleepyCat DB XML Mark Logic Content Interaction Server Xindice
Others (specify):

(18) What application servers do you use? (check all that apply)

BEA Weblogic Oracle App Server Apache Tomcat
Apache AXIS Microsoft .NET Server JBoss
IBM WebSphere Macromedia JRun Macromedia ColdFusion
Others (specify):
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(19) Which vendor’s integration technologies (EAI, EII, ETL) do you use? (check all that apply)

Ascential Tibco iWay
Metamatrix Pervasive/DataJunction SeeBeyond
Sonic Software webMethods Vitria
BEA IBM Oracle
Sybase Microsoft
Others (specify):
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(19) Briefly explain your most typical usage of <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%>.

(20) What do you like the most about <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%>?

(21) What do you dislike the most about <%=ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["SS"]%>?



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