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JavaLobby has a post titled And The Fastest Growing Web Framework Is... which discusses Rich Hightowers blog on the subject.

Of course, I can play with numbers like the best of them.

If we start with "Java JSF", "Java Spring", Ajax, and Rails, we tell a story that JSF is beating Rails, Spring is above both, and Ajax is doing better than them all (as it is general).

Then we change the game by adding PHP, and it is right up there with Ajax.

Then we use "Java" and "JSF" by themselves (same for Spring), and we see Java way up in the lead.

Finally, we change the scale to be relative, and we see hyper growth for Ajax compared to relative flat growth of the others.

The moral of the story? The good old truth about lies, lies, and statistics. Don't even get me started about what job numbers means, and how good Indeed's data may or may not be. How about we focus on just solving business problems? :)