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The Evans Data survey, entitled "Users' Choice Survey on Frameworks," had Google's App Engine and Google Web Toolkit coming in just behind .Net in overall satisfaction. Conducted in December 2009 and January 2010, the survey of more than 400 developers asked them to rank 10 attributes of frameworks they had used.
"The purpose of a framework is to make development easier by supplying prebuilt generic components and infrastructure, so ease-of-use is obviously important," said Evans CEO Janel Garvin, in a statement released by the company. "The .Net Framework provides a full development stack and it also provides the runtime environment for newly developed applications, so users rate it high."
In ranking ease of use alone as part of the survey, .Net was first while the Spring Framework was ranked last out of 12 frameworks. Rails was ranked 11th. Survey participants ranked ease-of-use as the most important feature of a Web development platform or framework, topping performance and extensibility.
In other results of the survey, the Apache Axis open source framework for Java development received the top ranking for performance. Object inheritance, for developing new objects within an application using objects that had already been defined, was ranked the least-important feature among developers.
This article, "Microsoft .Net gets thumbs-up, Ruby on Rails thumbs-down in frameworks survey," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter and on your mobile device at infoworldmobile.com.
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