Chinese developers' current use of J2ME, 52%, is slightly higher than the worldwide wireless developer population, 46%, but Chinese developers are substantially more likely to consider adopting J2ME for development with only 14% indicating no plans to evaluate or use J2ME. JavaPhone is in use by 25% of Chinese wireless developers compared to 14% of global wireless developers and 78% of Chinese developers have some adoption planned for JavaPhone compared to 51% of the global wireless developer population.
"Sun identified China as a major player in the world IT space years ago and made a concerted effort to introduce and encourage the adoption of Java technologies that is paying off in mindshare and use among Chinese wireless developers today," said John Andrews, president of Evans Data Corporation. "Additionally, Chinese wireless developers also chose to use Java-based alternatives instead of the two most common methods, among the global wireless development population, for connecting back-end applications to wireless devices, XML/SOAP or ADO.NET."
Other findings from the November 2005 survey of more than 550 wireless developers in China:
- Chinese wireless developers lead global development when it comes to messaging: SMS, 57%; EMS, 39%; and MMS 34% compared to global wireless developer development: SMS, 45%; EMS, 20%; and MMS, 25%.
- Chinese wireless developers prefer digital signatures, 26%, and firewalls, 15%, for security mechanisms over SSL/TLS connections and encrypting the data before its sent mechanisms that are favored by global wireless developers.
- Eighty-five percent of respondents are involved in slim-client application development (a combination of thin and rich), compared to 53% amongst the general global wireless community (and only 46% in North America).
