In recent years, as interest has grown in service oriented architecture (SOA), many companies have turned to application servers as a way to quickly assemble and deploy composite applications that would form the backbone of SOA efforts.

SOA is a disruptive force in many enterprises, realigning the way many developers and IT managers configure and manage applications. How will application servers fit into SOA scenarios going forward? What kinds of roles will they play? What role will a new generation of open source application servers and lightweight frameworks play in this emerging SOA world?

To answer these questions and more, ebizQ conducted a survey on application server usage and the impact of SOA on application servers. The survey explores how enterprises plan to implement new types of applications such as SOA, Web 2.0, mashups, and open source. Will they continue to use application servers? If so, what kinds?

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