Maxim's blog
Some thoughts on J2EE technologies
 Digg it  Bookmark with del.icio.us
Fri May 27, 2005 10:07 pm
[  Mood: Neutral ]
It just so happened that I was involved in one way or the other in quite a few projects developing n-tier applications with fat (SWING) clients. I tried to stay away from web development because I consider it fundamentally not that complicated, therefore very many people can do it, therefore there's no margin. And I think I was right: browsing through job postings on major career websites I couldn't help but notice that [at least in my locale] rates for fat client developers are $10-$50 per hour higher for contractors then for web-related projects.
Then I thought: can the rate the market pays per hour to developers be a measure of technology's complexity?
For example, there was a lot of hype about EJBs when they came out. Alas, not the most scalable solution; not as scalable as Sun Microsystems promissed it would be. And I know it's not scalable because both IBM and Borland told us that the system we were building at a time was the biggest EJB-based system they've ever seen. Biggest by several criterias: number of entity beans, overall number of entity and session beans, number of records in the database, and number of different J2EE technologies used together.
Anyway, where was I? Oh, scalability. EJB 3.0 is supposed to address this problem, but when is that going to happen?... I gotta look for an alternative.
JDO? Promissing... Sounds like a scalable architecture, simpler mapping then in EJB 2.0... But is it not as sophisticated as EJB? I read a few books on the subject and they all say that JDO is much simpler then EJB. Well, if that's the case, and my argument that market rates are related to the complexity of particular technology, how come average rate for EJB developer in my locale is $70-$100/h, and for JDO experts they range in $90-$120/h?
The Trackback URL for this entry is:
This function is disabled
| Author |
Message |
Guest
|
 Posted: Sat May 28, 2005 12:52 pm Post subject: |
|
Maybe supply and demand of developer expertise has something to do with it?! The more obscure the tech, the less the no of developers who know it, the more they can demand?
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
|
forums.supremistic.com Forum Index
-> Blogs
-> Maxim's blog
-> Some thoughts on J2EE technologies
|
|
|
