Notes - paulvi/topic-spring-in-china GitHub Wiki

"Spring in China" will also have some data about China,

Name: Paul Verest
Email: [email protected]
Company: Funshion Online
Location: Beijing, China
Bio: Java Developers and coding Architect; expat in China; has been developing software for oil, financial, social and now video industries. GitHuber. Eclipse enthusiast.
Topic Title: Spring in China
Abstract: "How Spring became the most popular Java framework in China" (sharing how Java & Spring community is different in China)
Comments: Sharing some history and numbers, perspective. trying to speak from all Chinese users: spring.io, JIRA sometimes are slow; Groovy or CloudFoundry without Chinese docs,etc ....

春思（李白诗作）

燕草如碧丝，秦桑低绿枝。 当君怀归日，是妾断肠时。 春风不相识，何事入罗帏？

朱自清 《春》

原文编辑 盼望着，盼望着，东风来了，春天的脚步近了。 一切都像刚睡醒的样子，欣欣然张开了眼。山朗润起来了，水涨起来了，太阳的脸红起来了。 小草偷偷地从土里钻出来，嫩嫩的，绿绿的。园子里，田野里，瞧去，一大片一大片满是的。坐着，躺着，打两个滚，踢几脚球，赛几趟跑，捉几回迷藏。风轻悄悄的，草软绵绵的。

1 http://www.yiyuanyi.org/wdjd/scjs/200908/11_23840.html

We expect quite old images, but China is quite modern.

2 http://liaomin.51.net/chunsi.html

Are you aware of world like this?

Most people geography is not exact anyway [*1][1].

[1]: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography)

By 2030 Chinese cities will be home to about 1 billion people

China takes PC crown from US

Do you know China being #1 maker and seller of PCs, cars and of course mobiles

Developers in China Java Developers Spring Developers

Number of Universities and students learning software

Example Wuhan (on halfway between Beijing & HK highway and bullet-train) population 10 mln It had the largest number of enrolled college students in the world in 2011. 100 000 (87 000 in BJ)

Some people say India, but 25% of Indian cannot read (comparing to 5% in China)

In 2013 Chinese overtook Indian as most populous foreign students in USA.

It was far, it made language more distinct

• Chinese Google
• Chinese ICQ
• Chinese Facebook
• Chinese Twitter
• Chinese Youtube
• Chinese Netflix

In 200x Chinese quickly copied western ideas and businesses.

Those who did are now big companies, making that copying as part of searching for new products, while smaller companies have almost no chances. (For start-up to success key factor is connection with government, state-owned enterprises.)

There was East-West political standoff. Now it seems more like economical. (Though big money is always polictics)

Yes, but there reason is that because it was taught as part of SSH.

Do you know what is SSH? C/S, B/S, APP? All Chinese developers I met think those are English words. They state for Struts+Spring+Hibernate, Client-Server, Browser-server, i.e. web apps and apps.

So actually it is because it is taught in Universities. And once some do others would not teach other things. (Being different in China is not popular) 2 years ago, it was still about Spring 2.x Even now Spring 4.x is almost unknown.

• Groovy? Nobody.
• Cloud Foundry? Well, maybe heard because of some topics on events, but not so likely to use.

... because there is not docs in Chinese.

Google is almost absent in China. Search takes 5-10 seconds, opening page though google.com redirect takes 10-20s and often fails.

Everybody uses Baidu. For developer news there are

• csdn
• iteye
• Chinese version of infoQ (that surprisingly has different content)