Demand for Spring Expertise Continues to Soar

Spring Surpasses EJBs as a Job Requirement

SAN MATEO, Calif.—August 27, 2008 – SpringSource, a leading provider of infrastructure software and the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java, today announced that job requirements for Spring continue to soar, with Spring overtaking Enterprise JavaBean™ (EJB™) as an enterprise job requirement.   

Spring is a comprehensive Java platform for building, running and managing Enterprise Java applications. With more than five million downloads to date, Spring is now the leading enterprise Java application infrastructure at organizations worldwide.  

As tracked by www.indeed.com, the most comprehensive search engine for jobs, the demand for Spring as a job listing requirement has overtaken the legacy enterprise Java standard, EJB, in job listing requirements. A chart of the comparison may be viewed at: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ejb+and+java%2C+spring+and+java&l=

"There's a landslide of Spring adoption, and the most accurate way to measure true adoption is in the demand for Spring developers and architects in the workforce,” said Rod Johnson, CEO of SpringSource. “Downloads reflect software evaluation as well as commercial use; job requirements show spending on projects of business importance. Overtaking EJB makes it clear that organizations are moving en masse to Spring, with thousands of Spring jobs listed every day. Spring is now at the forefront of a whole new application infrastructure, overtaking the stack one level at a time, removing bloat and inefficiencies.”

Experts who wish to differentiate themselves in a competitive marketplace can participate in the Spring Certified Developer program available from SpringSource. Hiring managers can be assured that program graduates have proficient Spring knowledge and the practical expertise for implementing Spring-based solutions successfully.

About SpringSource
SpringSource is the company behind Spring, the de facto standard in enterprise Java. SpringSource is a leading provider of enterprise Java infrastructure software, and delivers enterprise class software, support and services to help organizations utilize Spring and, through its acquisition of Covalent, manage infrastructure technologies from the Apache Software Foundation. Nearly half of the Global 2000, including many of the world’s largest financial institutions, retailers, manufacturers, healthcare, technology and public sector clients are SpringSource customers. For more information visit:  www.springsource.com.


###