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The Future of Java Developers

Sharafudhin Mangalad June 10, 2021

sharafudheen-mangalad.jpg  Managing director, Edoxi Training Institute in Dubai.

  WWS contributor

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With new releases every six months and a framework update every year, Java programing language keeps in pace with the ever-changing trends in the IT industry and software market.

To understand the future of Java developers, you need to first understand the ecosystem of Java and reach out to developers for their insights.

The presence of Java is seen everywhere from laptop functions to scientific supercomputers, mobile phones, gaming consoles, Financial services, Big Data, banking, stock market, retail industries applications, and everywhere in our day-to-day lives. 

It's being said that there are 9 million Java developers in the world. This proves that there is a huge demand for Java Developers and for the Java Program. This will let you know that in the future there is a huge demand for Java and its evolution in the software development industry.

Let’s get down to it and highlight some of what the future of Java is expected to be and its scope for Java Developers.

 

1. Predominance among Large Enterprises

 

Java will continue to be a predominant language as long as large enterprises are able to move beyond the latest versions of Java and if it becomes more of a cloud-native.

 

2. More of Cloud Native

 

Today we're seeing everything moving on to the cloud. If Java has to be a prospective language for the future, it needs to be more cloud-native.

Many enterprises that are already using Java-based applications cannot throw away the investment they made in the industry and all of a sudden cannot get used to a whole new language and start from scratch.

Therefore, Java needs to be adaptive and run well in new environments.

 

3. Exciting Career Opportunities

 

For more than 25 years Java has been successfully continuing to lead in popularity in the job market. So much so that most of the large companies including Google, Amazon still continue to use Java as a reliable programming language.

The Android mobile application development market and the enterprise back-end market currently also use Java lead pack.

Therefore, if you're considering a job in Android application development, the integration of modern language features offers Java Developers a bright future.

 

4. Popularity in Different Domains

 

Java is widely used in different domains and is highly popular with many industries. Some of the different domains where Java is used widely are financial services where it is used in managing server-side applications. While in Big Data, the Hadoop Map Reduce framework is written using Java Program.

In the Banking sector, transaction management is dealt with using Java. In the Stock Market, Java is used to write algorithms to help people decide in which company they should invest. The Retail Billing Applications you normally see in a restaurant or store are written in Java.

Moreover, if you're using a Smartphone with Android Operating system, its applications are either written in Java or using Java API.

The Scientific and research community usually deal with a large amount of data. In some of the technologies, they use java as a vital core of their functionalities.

 

5. Supports a Wide Array of Data Types

 

Java's data types distinguished as primitive and reference types support a wide array of data types. While the primitive data types of Java supports short & long integers, byte, float, Boolean and double, the reference data types supported by Java are class, array, annotation, interface and enumeration.

Therefore, when compared to other popular languages such as Python, Java supports string, classes and collection of values. This will make the future of Java and developers shine bright.

 

In Conclusion

 

Java can do everything in the world of computing from building desktop applications using the Swing API or JavaFX to creating a modern solution for developing graphical interfaces. Java's Jakarta EE specification formerly known as Java EE is so popular in companies that it allows developers to architect their applications in the best possible way.

Also, the popularity of Android Apps and the operating system in the smartphone sector makes Java the ideal language for developing mobile applications. In short, Java makes everything possible and this offers a Java developer with a wide range of possibilities in the future.

So, the future for Java developers looks bright. Java is the most widely used programming language and it is present everywhere. A Java developer will have an ocean of opportunities. There is no need to be concerned about why learn Java programming.

The opportunities of learning Java, career growth prospects, popularity of the field, ease-to-learn the language, and helpful open source tools and libraries make it worthwhile.


Sharafudheen Mangalad is the managing director of a chain of educational institutions in the UAE. With more than 10 years of experience in the education industry, he successfully runs Edoxi Training Institute in Dubai and Time Training Center Abu Dhabi. Connect with Sharafudheen on LinkedIn.


 

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