According to the results of a BEA survey last week at the vendor's dev2dev event of 1,000 enterprise Java developers from various European cities, nearly 75% said they are already developing or expect to develop service-oriented architectures (SOAs) in 2005.

Some might argue that since part of the dev2dev agenda was focused on developing service-oriented apps, the target audience would naturally have a greater inclination toward SOA, which could mean the 75% SOA usage number is bloated.

In the coming weeks, BEA expects to release the results of a similar survey conducted at its dev2dev events in various cities across the United States, according to sources. The results, which are still being compiled, aren't expected to be too different from the European results, Rivera predicts.