Enterprise Java Today: Why Fragmentation Is Slowing Teams Down (and What to Do About It)

If you work with Java for enterprise applications, chances are the language itself isn’t your biggest problem.

Java is mature, fast, well-understood and backed by a huge ecosystem. Most of the real challenges today sit around Java, such as the fragmented tooling, inconsistent environments, legacy applications and the growing complexity of DevOps.

To better understand how teams are dealing with this reality, we surveyed practitioners across industries and compiled the findings in our State of Contemporary Enterprise Java Report. The results confirm what many developers experience day to day: Java is still everywhere, but managing it efficiently has become harder.

The challenges associated with Java’s maturity

Most organizations don’t run a single Java application within their enterprise IT. They run a multitude of them, built at different times, using different frameworks, deployed in different ways.

This leads to fragmentation across runtimes, configuration, deployment, observability and much more. Even when individual tools are good, the overall developer experience suffers.

Why platform decisions matter

While fragmentation slows teams down, well-implemented standardization gives developers room to focus on building software instead of maintaining infrastructure and firefighting. At Payara, we work closely with enterprise Java teams facing these challenges every day. This report is part of our ongoing effort to share real-world insights and support developers building as well as maintaining enterprise Java systems.

One of the strongest signals from the analysis is growing interest in platforms that:

• Support multiple technologies and frameworks
• Reduce the need for custom glue code and scripts
• Automate common operational tasks
• Provide consistent deployment and runtime behavior

Dive deeper into the data

The State of Contemporary Enterprise Java Report goes deeper into these topics, with survey data, charts and expert analysis. If you’re building or maintaining Java applications in an enterprise environment and are facing any challenge, the report is designed to help you benchmark your own experience and think critically about what to improve next.

Register your interest today to be the first to receive exclusive, early access to the State of Contemporary Enterprise Java Report straight in your inbox. And don’t forget to sign up for our latest webinar Insights on Enterprise Java: Current Trends, Challenges and Strategies, which will feature our experts explaining more about the findings.